"There are no techniques in politics." — Michael Ignatieff

"There are no techniques in politics."

— Michael Ignatieff

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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 radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our… — Hannah Arendt
Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a… — Hannah Arendt
Under every stone lurks a politician. — Aristophanes
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the… — Aristotle
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from… — Aristotle
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or… — Aristotle
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle

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