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Michael Ignatieff Quotes

Politics is like getting a really bad review: a stinker that you know all your friends are reading Picture Quote #1

Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful society Picture Quote #1

What we want is to become masters in our own house Picture Quote #1

Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we’ve been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam Picture Quote #1

America’s entire war on terror is an exercise in imperialism. This may come as a shock to Americans, who don’t like to think of their country as an empire. But what else can you call America’s legions of soldiers, spooks and special forces straddling the globe? Picture Quote #1

A liberal society cannot be defended by herbivores. We need carnivores to save us, but we had better make sure the meat-eaters hunt only on our orders Picture Quote #1

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Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis Picture Quote #1

Liberal democracy has endured because its institutions are designed for handling morally hazardous forms of coercive power. It puts the question of how far government should go to the cross fire of adversarial review Picture Quote #1

Secessionists, whether in Scotland, Catalonia, Quebec or anywhere else, invariably assume that a person must either be Scottish or British, Catalan or Spanish, Quebecois or Canadian. What about those who feel they are both? Picture Quote #1

The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that force is legitimate only to the degree that it serves defensible poltical goals. Thus implies a constant exercise of due diligence Picture Quote #1

Since Franklin Roosevelt’s leadership in setting up the United Nations and the Nuremberg trials, the U.S. has promoted universal legal norms and the institutions to enforce them while seeking, by hook or by crook, to exempt American citizens, especially soldiers, from their actual application Picture Quote #1

It’s good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves Picture Quote #1

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All war aims for impunity Picture Quote #1

There’s a way in which these guys all think absolutely media, day and night. Access is what it’s all about, so they spin 24 hours a day and that’s a problem Picture Quote #1

We wanted this war and now we’ve got it, and I’m not sure that we know what to do with it Picture Quote #1

The medium’s gaze is brief, intense, and promiscuous. The shelf life of the moral causes it makes its own is brutally short Picture Quote #1

Canadians want a country. They don’t want a community of communities. I’m committed to the national unity of the country Picture Quote #1

An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician’s interest is exclusively in the question of whether an idea’s time has come Picture Quote #1

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If you get the access to see history happen, do you understand the history when it does happen? And the answer to that question is no, you dont Picture Quote #1

Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation Picture Quote #1

Family traditions are more than arguments with the dead, more than collections of family letters you try to decipher. A tradition is also a channel of memory through which fierce and unrequited longings surge, longings that define and shape a whole life Picture Quote #1

Living fearlessly is not the same as never being afraid. It’s good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher Picture Quote #1

... our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration Picture Quote #1

Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray Picture Quote #1

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There’s a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers Picture Quote #1

There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don’t yet have states. They’re inside someone else’s state and they want a state of their own Picture Quote #1

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted Picture Quote #1

The understand the difficult truth that their best hope of freedom lies in a temporary experience of imperial rule Picture Quote #1

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Politics is like getting a really bad review: a stinker that you know all your friends are reading (Michael Ignatieff Quotes) Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful society (Michael Ignatieff Quotes) What we want is to become masters in our own house (Michael Ignatieff Quotes) Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we’ve been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam (Michael Ignatieff Quotes) America’s entire war on terror is an exercise in imperialism. This may come as a shock to Americans, who don’t like to think of their country as an empire. But what else can you call America’s legions of soldiers, spooks and special forces straddling the globe? (Michael Ignatieff Quotes) A liberal society cannot be defended by herbivores. We need carnivores to save us, but we had better make sure the meat-eaters hunt only on our orders (Michael Ignatieff Quotes) Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis (Michael Ignatieff Quotes) Liberal democracy has endured because its institutions are designed for handling morally hazardous forms of coercive power. It puts the question of how far government should go to the cross fire of adversarial review (Michael Ignatieff Quotes) Secessionists, whether in Scotland, Catalonia, Quebec or anywhere else, invariably assume that a person must either be Scottish or British, Catalan or Spanish, Quebecois or Canadian. What about those who feel they are both? (Michael Ignatieff Quotes) The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that force is legitimate only to the degree that it serves defensible poltical goals. Thus implies a constant exercise of due diligence (Michael Ignatieff Quotes) Since Franklin Roosevelt’s leadership in setting up the United Nations and the Nuremberg trials, the U.S. has promoted universal legal norms and the institutions to enforce them while seeking, by hook or by crook, to exempt American citizens, especially soldiers, from their actual application. (Michael Ignatieff Quotes) It’s good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves (Michael Ignatieff Quotes) All war aims for impunity (Michael Ignatieff Quotes) There’s a way in which these guys all think absolutely media, day and night. Access is what it’s all about, so they spin 24 hours a day and that’s a problem (Michael Ignatieff Quotes) We wanted this war and now we’ve got it, and I’m not sure that we know what to do with it (Michael Ignatieff Quotes) The medium’s gaze is brief, intense, and promiscuous. The shelf life of the moral causes it makes its own is brutally short (Michael Ignatieff Quotes) Canadians want a country. They don’t want a community of communities. I’m committed to the national unity of the country (Michael Ignatieff Quotes) An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician’s interest is exclusively in the question of whether an idea’s time has come (Michael Ignatieff Quotes) If you get the access to see history happen, do you understand the history when it does happen? And the answer to that question is no, you dont (Michael Ignatieff Quotes) Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation (Michael Ignatieff Quotes) Family traditions are more than arguments with the dead, more than collections of family letters you try to decipher. A tradition is also a channel of memory through which fierce and unrequited longings surge, longings that define and shape a whole life (Michael Ignatieff Quotes) Living fearlessly is not the same as never being afraid. It’s good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher (Michael Ignatieff Quotes) ... our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration (Michael Ignatieff Quotes) Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray (Michael Ignatieff Quotes) There’s a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers (Michael Ignatieff Quotes) There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don’t yet have states. They’re inside someone else’s state and they want a state of their own (Michael Ignatieff Quotes) Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted (Michael Ignatieff Quotes) The understand the difficult truth that their best hope of freedom lies in a temporary experience of imperial rule (Michael Ignatieff Quotes)

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