"Memory is the only afterlife I have ever……" — Michael Ignatieff
"Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray."
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67 Quotes by Michael Ignatieff
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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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I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally…
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He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely…
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During the 1990s, world leaders looked at the mounting threat of terrorism, looked up, looked away, and hoped the problem…
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Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
— George Carlin
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If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
— Winston Churchill
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I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it.
— Jarvis Cocker
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There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.
— Paulo Coelho
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Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that…
— William Ames
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I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven…
— Isaac Asimov
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The chief problem about death ... is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought.
— Woody Allen
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I don't believe in an afterlife, but I'm taking an extra pair of underwear just in case.
— Woody Allen
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