British - Historian | January 2, 1948 - August 6, 2010
Reality is a powerful solvent.
Tony Judt
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I would say that I have become more radical as I have gotten older. I started out very radical when I was young, like most people, but I became less actively politically engaged in the middle of my life.
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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.
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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.
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I don't believe that one should have one-size-fits-all moral rules for international political action.
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We are not merely historians but also and always citizens.
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I don't much mind being expelled from communities.
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