Author Quote by Michael Ignatieff

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

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

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

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

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

There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

— Michael Ignatieff

Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics.

— Michael Ignatieff

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

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

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

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

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