I don't want to be someone sitting in my rocking chair at the end saying, 'Well, I passed.' My mum used to… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In academic life, false ideas are merely false, and useless ones can be fun to play with. — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
For someone like me who, as a kid, walked to school muttering little political speeches to myself, it was irresistible to finally… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
One of the greatest feelings in life is the conviction that you have lived the life you wanted to live-with the rough… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
“I admit I must have been impossible to live with. It was the self-righteousness of the grieving--my idea that I would betray… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
I had no inkling of how crazy the political life would turn out to be. You shuttle between your constituency and Ottawa,… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Politics isn't a reality show or a gong show. It's not show business for ugly people. It's the arena where we define… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
All the best reasons for going into politics never really change: the desire for glory and fame and the chance to do… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life, false ideas… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that force is… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
What really matters is getting new people in. The constitutional changes matter, but the thing that the party mustn't do is turn in on… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Those with a gift for action, for their part, often express contempt for those whose gifts are more reflective. Men of action like to… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
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… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries. — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics. — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Both Iraq and Syria are a fissile mixture of ethnicities and religions thrown together after Versailles by departing French and British imperialists and only… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
The legitimacy of coercive acts in a democracy arises from the process by which they are justified and by the degree to which we… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Some of our finest leaders were not intellectuals at all, and I admire them enormously because they weren't. Harry Truman wasn't. — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
If you get the access to see history happen, do you understand the history when it does happen? And the answer to that question… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
I have been a journalist, off and on, since I was 17. I was a copy boy for the 'New York Times,' when it… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
