152 Quotes by Michael Ignatieff

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.

America’s entire war on terror is an exercise in imperialism. This may come as a shock to Americans, who don’t like to think of their country as an empire. But what else can you call America’s legions of soldiers, spooks and special forces straddling the globe?

The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies – their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that force is legitimate only to the degree that it serves defensible poltical goals. Thus implies a constant exercise of due diligence...

Mr. Kaplan is the first traveler to take us on a journey to the jagged places where these tectonic plates meet, and his argument – that our future is being shaped far away ‘at the ends of the earth’ – makes his travelogue pertinent and compelling reading.

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

Canadians want a country. They don’t want a community of communities. I’m committed to the national unity of the country.

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

It’s good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher.

The medium’s gaze is brief, intense, and promiscuous. The shelf life of the moral causes it makes its own is brutally short.