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War Quotes by Michael Ignatieff
- How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual?
- 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…
- I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the…
- All war aims for impunity.
- 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…
- 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…
- The detention of Japanese Americans during World War II would qualify as an example of majoritarian tyranny and misuse of executive prerogative, driven by fear…
- The war waged against terror since September 11 puts a strain on democracy itself, because it is mostly waged in secret, using means that are…
- We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.
- 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…
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- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him. — William Shakespeare
- Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint. — William Shakespeare
- There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old. — William Shakespeare
- A man can die but once. — William Shakespeare
- Go, bid the soldiers shoot. — William Shakespeare
- I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways. — William Shakespeare