"The legitimacy of coercive acts in a democracy……" — 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 regard decisions as rational. If the justifications proceed properly, through recognized public institutions, and if they make sense to us, they are legitimate."
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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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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and…
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We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs.…
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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a…
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The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself.…
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Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long…
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
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Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of…
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