"Liberal democracy has endured because its institutions are……" — Michael Ignatieff
"Liberal democracy has endured because its institutions are designed for handling morally hazardous forms of coercive power. It puts the question of how far government should go to the cross fire of adversarial review."
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67 Quotes by Michael Ignatieff
Michael Ignatieff has 67 quotes on this site.
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There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.
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Family traditions are more than arguments with the dead, more than collections of family letters you try to decipher. A…
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Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation.
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The reason that the Croats want a state of their own is that they fear being cut into little pieces…
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If you get the access to see history happen, do you understand the history when it does happen? And the…
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Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for…
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If I am not elected, I imagine that I will ask Harvard to let me back.
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How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual?
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To defeat evil, we may have to traffic in evils: indefinite detention of suspects, coercive interrogations, targeted assassinations, even pre-emptive…
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There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers.
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In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life,…
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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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More Adversarial Quotes
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one of 22 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph.
— Nick Cave
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Why does the UK government ignore workplace bullying? Our system of democracy - government and law - is based on…
— Tim Field
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Most of the time, tough, combative, adversarial dialogue is much more exciting than physical action.
— Sol Stein
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O truly enjoy... [a university], the individual-student or faculty-must harbor a well-calibrated sense of annoyance at the institution, entering into…
— Robin Winks
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Bill Maher and I are on against each other, and we're friends. He can do my show any time he…
— Jay Leno
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Economic activity is no longer an adversarial contest between embattled sellers and buyers "In the distributed economy, where collaboration trumps…
— Jeremy Rifkin
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If outside forces and culture were the reasons behind declining and non-influential churches, we would likely have no churches today.…
— Thom S. Rainer
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Where we see self esteem, we see self acceptance. High self esteem individual tend to avoid falling into an adversarial…
— Nathaniel Branden
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The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour,…
— Roger Mudd
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
— Warren E. Burger
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An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly…
— Louis de Bernieres
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It's an adversarial world outside of the safety of nirvana and enlightenment. In life, all beings need to feed on…
— Frederick Lenz
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