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“Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish.”
-- Tony Judt

#Space #Self #Leaving
“We are not merely historians but also and always citizens.”
-- Tony Judt

#Citizens #Historian
“As citizens of a free society, we have a duty to look critically at our world. But if we think we know what is wrong, we must act upon that knowledge.”
-- Tony Judt

#Thinking #Our World #Looks
“The people whose necks hurt when I write about the Middle East tend to live in Brooklyn or Boca Raton: the kind of Zionist who pays another man to live in Israel for him. I have nothing but contempt for such people.”
-- Tony Judt

#Hurt #Writing #Men
“We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.”
-- Tony Judt

#Ideas #Cost
“Undergraduates today can select from a swathe of identity studies.... The shortcoming of all these para-academic programs is not that they concentrate on a given ethnic or geographical minority; it is that they encourage members of that minority to study themselves - thereby simultaneously negating the goals of a liberal education and reinforcing the sectarian and ghetto mentalities they purport to undermine.”
-- Tony Judt

#Ghetto #Goal #Identity
“History can show you that it was one pile of bad stuff after another. It can also show you that there's been tremendous progress in knowledge, behaviour, laws, civilisation. It cannot show you that there was a meaning behind it.”
-- Tony Judt

#Law #Progress #Stuff
“I'm not sure I've learned anything new about life; but I've had to think harder about death and what comes after for other people.”
-- Tony Judt

#Thinking #People
“I know exactly how and where I am going to die. The only question is when.”
-- Tony Judt
“I've lost count of the interviews I've done about my illness and its relationship to my ideas and writing.”
-- Tony Judt

#Writing #Ideas #Done
“It does irritate me when I am described as a controversialist and commentator on Israel.”
-- Tony Judt

#Israel #Doe
“Reality is a powerful solvent.”
-- Tony Judt

#Powerful #Reality
“My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.”
-- Tony Judt

#Book #Reading #Writing
“I grew up in a world where the social democratic state was the norm, not the exception.”
-- Tony Judt

#World #Social #Grew
“I don't much mind being expelled from communities.”
-- Tony Judt

#Community #Mind
“I don't believe that one should have one-size-fits-all moral rules for international political action.”
-- Tony Judt

#Believe #Political #Size
“We need to learn... how war brutalises and degrades winners and losers alike and what happens to us when, having heedlessly waged war for no good reason, we are encouraged to inflate and demonise our enemies in order to justify that war's indefinite continuance.”
-- Tony Judt

#War #Order #Enemy
“Apparently, the line you take on Israel trumps everything else in life.”
-- Tony Judt

#Israel #Lines #Trump
“At a certain point, to remain slightly tangential to wherever I was became a way of 'being Tony': by not being anything that everyone else was.”
-- Tony Judt

#Way #Certain
“But I'm English. We don't do uplifting.”
-- Tony Judt

#Uplifting
“History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same.”
-- Tony Judt
“How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else?”
-- Tony Judt

#Generations #Wealth #Obsessed
“I can still boss people around. I can still write. I can still read. I can still eat, and I can still have very strong views.”
-- Tony Judt

#Strong #Writing #Views
“I do think we're on the edge of a terrifying world, and that many young people know that but don't know how to talk about it.”
-- Tony Judt

#Thinking #People #World
“I don't believe in an afterlife. I don't believe in a single or multiple godhead. I respect people who do, but I don't believe it myself.”
-- Tony Judt

#Believe #Afterlife #People
“After 1945 what happened was rather the opposite: with one major exception boundaries stayed broadly intact and people were moved instead.”
-- Tony Judt

#Opposites #People #Boundaries
“If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants”
-- Tony Judt

#Citizens #Forfeit #Mediocre
“If words fall into disrepair, what will substitute? They are all we have”
-- Tony Judt

#Fall #Substitutes
“If we have learned nothing else from the 20th century, we should at least have grasped that the more perfect the answer, the more terrifying its consequences. Incremental improvements upon unsatisfactory circumstances are the best that we can hope for, and probably all we should seek.”
-- Tony Judt

#Perfect #Answers #Improvement
“Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.”
-- Tony Judt

#Responsibility #Past #Self

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