"A society is not a market. It is…" — Michael Ignatieff

"A society is not a market. It is a political community."

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67 Quotes by Michael Ignatieff

Michael Ignatieff has 67 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.
Family traditions are more than arguments with the dead, more than collections of family letters you try to decipher. A…
Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation.
The reason that the Croats want a state of their own is that they fear being cut into little pieces…
If you get the access to see history happen, do you understand the history when it does happen? And the…
Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for…
If I am not elected, I imagine that I will ask Harvard to let me back.
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…
There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers.
In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life,…
I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge…

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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the… — Aristotle
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. — Isaac Asimov
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — Francis of Assisi
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees. — Marcus Aurelius
We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans. — Alan Autry
There are no doubts that, the situation in the country today, indicates that there is much more work to do… — Ibrahim Babangida
Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also… — Joe Baca
Another friend hired me to open doors for him in the moving and relocation business. I did that for 10… — Ernie Banks
I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated… — Jane Addams
Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans. — Xavier Becerra
You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich. — Henry Ward Beecher

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