Michael Ignatieff Quotes

• One of the greatest feelings in life is the conviction that you have lived the life you wanted to live-with the rough and the smooth, the good and the bad-but yours, shaped by your own choices, and not someone else's.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Life, Choices, Feelings

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• A liberal society cannot be defended by herbivores. We need carnivores to save us, but we had better make sure the meat-eaters hunt only on our orders.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Order, Meat, Needs

  "Lesser Evils" by Michael Ignatieff, www.nytimes.com. May 2, 2004.

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• Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Ideas, Forget, Improvisation

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

  Michael Ignatieff

  Creer, Gente, Causas

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• 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.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Multicultural Society, Land, Differences

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• 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

  Guerra, Medio, Pensamiento

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• Those with a gift for action, for their part, often express contempt for those whose gifts are more reflective. Men of action like to say, Those who can, do, those who cant, teach, forgetting that those who teach get to write the history books.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Libro, Escritura, Hombres

  Michael Ignatieff (2013). “Fire and Ashes”, p.171, Harvard University Press

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• 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.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Ideas, Intellectual, Sake

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• We must not lose sight of the fundamental issue of policy which is that people who come to the country on visa status must never be abused.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Country, People, Policy

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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• The Liberal Party of Canada has no monopoly on public service, we have no monopoly on virtue, and we have no monopoly on wisdom.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Party, Canada, Virtue

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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• El partido tiene que verse a sí mismo como una organización de servicio público en un campo muy competitivo, en el que todos compiten por la lealtad, el compromiso y la inteligencia de la próxima generación. Tienen que ser lo bastante grandes para llegar a esos grupos y decirles "venid".

  Michael Ignatieff

  Party, Commitment, Organization

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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• I'm very struck by what you can do in a classroom. I've got 200 students. You don't do partisan politics in a classroom, that's not appropriate. But you want to give them a strong sense that these are the issues that matter.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Strong, Issues, Giving

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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• Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful society.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Successful, Secret, Resources

  "Michael Ignatieff: from The Late Show to Prime Minister in waiting?". Interview With Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2009.

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• Political utopias are a form of nostalgia for an imagined past projected onto the future as a wish.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Past, Political, Wish

  Michael Ignatieff (2015). “The Needs of Strangers”, p.107, Picador

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• Public service does not necessarily mean service in the House of Commons, and public service is not synonymous with partisan political activity. It comes in a thousand colours, but the common denominator is: it's not about me - it's about we.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Mean, House, Political

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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• There are all kinds of different forms of public service, but there's no form of public service that can make more difference for more people than partisan political activity.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Differences, People, Political

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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• You can't get back to power by defining your project in negative terms. But it helps to have somebody in office who represents the opposite of what you believe.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Believe, Opposites, Office

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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• 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

  World, Want, States

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• Well, I'm an absolute fan of lacy lingerie. I want to make that perfectly clear.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Fans, Want, Lingerie

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• We can't afford to waste people. We can't afford to have people think the game is over before it's begun. We've got to be saying to the Canadian people: you can't tax cut your way to a productive 21st-century economy. You can talk that talk, but it's not going to give you a productive 21st-century economy, because it will scythe apart the public goods that make prosperity possible. That's what we've got to say, and so we shall.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Cutting, Thinking, Games

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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

  Michael Ignatieff

  Memorial Day, America, Feelings

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• El patriotismo es un fuerte sentimiento nacionalista por un país cuyas fronteras y cuya legitimidad y composición étnica se dan por sentadas.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Country, Strong, Taken

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• I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Patriotism, Patriotism And Nationalism, Nationalism

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• If I am not elected, I imagine that I will ask Harvard to let me back.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Imagine, Harvard, Let Me

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• One of the biggest divides in Canada - I said it in 2006, and I said it right through my political career - is urban-rural. Lots of parts of this country feel entirely left behind. And they're mobilized by, you know, the gun control issue.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Country, Gun, Careers

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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