Quotes by Michael Ignatieff

Michael Ignatieff

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

Consideration

Individual

Moral

An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician’s interest is exclusively in the question of whether an idea’s time has come.

Ideas

Intellectual

Sake

Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics – one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis.

Differences

Land

Multicultural Society

How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual?

Invisible

People

War

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

Nationalism

Patriotism

Patriotism And Nationalism

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.

Bosnians

Historical

War

If you get the access to see history happen, do you understand the history when it does happen? And the answer to that question is no, you dont.

Answers

Doe

Happens

In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life, false ideas can ruin the lives of millions and useless ones can waste precious resources. An intellectual’s responsibility for his ideas is to follow their consequences wherever they may lead. A politician’s responsibility is to master those consequences and prevent them from doing harm. Michael Ignatieff, a former professor at Harvard and contributing writer for the magazine, is a member of Canada’s Parliament and deputy leader of the Liberal Party.

Fun

Party

War

Inequality is not just an issue between individuals, between classes, between regions. It’s between urban and rural.

Class

Issues

Urban

It’s good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves.

Believe

Causes

People

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Afterlife

Answers

Believe

Book

Bosnians

Britain

Causes

Class

Commitment

Consideration

Cost

Country

Cutting

Differences

Division

Doe

Dozen

Earth

Exercise

Forget

Fun

Games

Giving

Goal

Happens

Helping

Historical

House

Ideas

Individual

Intellectual

Intense

Invisible

Issues

Jobs

Journey

Kids

Land

Lying

Mean

Memories

Men

Moderation

Moral

Moving

Multicultural Society

Nationalism

Office

Opposites

Organization

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Quotes by Michael Ignatieff

Michael Ignatieff

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

An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician’s interest is exclusively in the question of whether an idea’s time has come.

How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual?

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

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.

If you get the access to see history happen, do you understand the history when it does happen? And the answer to that question is no, you dont.

Inequality is not just an issue between individuals, between classes, between regions. It’s between urban and rural.

It’s good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves.

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