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May Quotes by Michael Ignatieff
- To defeat evil, we may have to traffic in evils: indefinite detention of suspects, coercive interrogations, targeted assassinations, even pre-emptive war.
- In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life, false ideas can ruin the…
- The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war will be increasingly…
- The disagreeable reality for those who believe in human rights is that there are some occasions-and Iraq may be one of them-when war is the…
- 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…
- 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…
More May Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong