All Michael Ignatieff Quotes
- There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries. Britain
- Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray. Afterlife
- One of the greatest feelings in life is the conviction that you have lived the life you wanted to live-with the rough and the smooth,… Bad
- ...our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration. Compose
- Living fearlessly is not the same as never being afraid. It's good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher. Afraid
- 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… Anywhere
- There are hundreds of thousands of Scots who acknowledge English, Irish or Welsh parts of their very being. Lives and destinies are similarly intertwined in… Acknowledge
- In academic life, false ideas are merely false, and useless ones can be fun to play with. Academic
- There are no techniques in politics. Politics
- Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics. Affirming
- America owed its military renaissance in the 1980s and 1990s to Vietnam. Veterans like Norman Schwartzkopf, Colin Powell, Alfred Grey, Charles Krulak, and Wesley Clark… Alfred
- Desert Storm was seen by the military establishment and by some politicians as avenging Vietnam, but it left behind dangerous illusions. The victory was so… American
- Desert Storm created the pattern for the American way of war that eventually prevailed in Kosovo. America learned from Vietnam that unilateral use of force… America
- All the best reasons for going into politics never really change: the desire for glory and fame and the chance to do something that really… All
- I may have come into politics with an unacknowledged condescension toward the game and the people who played it, but I left with more respect… All
- Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one… Any
- Free societies, which allow differences to speak and be heard, and live by intermarriage, commerce, and free migration, and democratic societies, which convert enemies into… Adversaries
- Both Iraq and Syria are a fissile mixture of ethnicities and religions thrown together after Versailles by departing French and British imperialists and only kept… Baathist
- Conservatives believe that international institutions such as the United Nations are anti-American and anti-Israeli cabals. Progressives do not like the economic medicine that the International… American
- Not even a superpower can hold onto its economic sovereignty if it fails to get its fiscal house in order, and no one needs a… Economic