Quotes by : Michael Ignatieff

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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