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Michael Ignatieff Quotes

Michael Ignatieff quotes

Canadian Politician May 12, 1947

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Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam. Michael Ignatieff
Michael Ignatieff quote: "It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves."
It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves. Michael Ignatieff
Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted. Michael Ignatieff
Michael Ignatieff quote: "I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke."
I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke. Michael Ignatieff
The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war will be increasingly abstract, hard to think about and hard to control. Michael Ignatieff
There's a way in which these guys all think absolutely media, day and night. Access is what it's all about, so they spin 24 hours a day and that's a problem. Michael Ignatieff
Michael Ignatieff quote: "There's intense national feeling in America that could be..."
There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism. Michael Ignatieff
Michael Ignatieff quote: "How do you keep war accountable to the American people when..."
How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual? Michael Ignatieff
Michael Ignatieff quote: "There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever..."
There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers. Michael Ignatieff
There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own. Michael Ignatieff
I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war. Michael Ignatieff
Michael Ignatieff quote: "We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that..."
We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it. Michael Ignatieff
Michael Ignatieff quote: "All war aims for impunity."
All war aims for impunity. Michael Ignatieff
Michael Ignatieff quote: "I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism."
I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism. Michael Ignatieff
Michael Ignatieff quote: "There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other..."
There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries. Michael Ignatieff

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