Michael Ignatieff Quotes

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.
Michael Ignatieff

Patriotism, Between

All war aims for impunity.
Michael Ignatieff

War, Impunity, Aims

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

War, Keep, American

I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke.
Michael Ignatieff

Peace, Made, Bosnia

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

War, Point, Happened

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

Good, Themselves, Causes

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.
Michael Ignatieff

Patriotism, Strong, Feeling

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

War, Future, Hard

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

Someone, Else, State

There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.
Michael Ignatieff

Countries, Britain, Civic

There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers.
Michael Ignatieff

Real, Soldiers, Financial

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

Night, Problem, Guys

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

Memorial Day, Patriotism, Feeling

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

War, Wanted, Sure

What we want is to become masters in our own house.
Michael Ignatieff

Become, House, Masters

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

Good, War, Experience

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Politician

Born: May 12, 1947

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