"What makes the United Nations an appropriate source……" — Michael Ignatieff
"What makes the United Nations an appropriate source of legitimacy for intervention is that it is the only place where the claims of the strong are put through the test of justification in front of the weak."
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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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