152 Quotes by Michael Ignatieff

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

All war aims for impunity.

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.

The reason that the Croats want a state of their own is that they fear being cut into little pieces by the Serbs.

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

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.

There’s a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

Living fearlessly is not the same as never being afraid. It’s good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher.

I teach students that what people say about failure in politics is mostly wrong. People always told me, ‘They’ll praise you on your way up and kick you on your way down.’ That wasn’t my experience. I can’t walk down the street in Toronto without someone coming up and saying hello.