Michael Ignatieff Quotes

Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyo...

Intolerance is a form of divided consciousness in which abstract, conceptual, ideological hatred van...

An ethnic minority can live in peace with an ethnic majority as long as the majority does not use it...

Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped...

...our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consid...

Trouble is, we call politics a game, but it isn't one. There is no referee, and the teams make up th...

Politics is a tough game. But would I change places with a trauma nurse in an emergency ward on a bu...

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American p...

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whos...

If the history of the western moral imagination is the story of an enduring and unending revolt agai...

When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignti...

I teach students that what people say about failure in politics is mostly wrong. People always told ...

Since Franklin Roosevelt's leadership in setting up the United Nations and the Nuremberg trials, the...

I went into politics thinking that, if I made arguments in good faith, I'd get a hearing. It's a rea...

Loving a country is an act of the imagination.

One of the greatest feelings in life is the conviction that you have lived the life you wanted to li...

There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.

Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful society.