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Who Quotes by Michael Ignatieff
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- The core of human rights work is naming and shaming those who commit abuses, and pressuring governments to put the screws to abusing states. As…
- For someone like me who, as a kid, walked to school muttering little political speeches to myself, it was irresistible to finally get a chance…
- Belief in liberal freedom and democracy is always belief in it in a particular place, in a national home with histories that only those who…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- 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
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle