List of Michael Ignatieff Quotes

Memory Is The Only Afterlife I Have Ever Believed In. But The Forgetting Inside Us Cannot Be Stopped. We Are Programmed To Betray.

There's A Civic Nationalism In Britain And Dozens Of Other Countries.

Family Traditions Are More Than Arguments With The Dead, More Than Collections Of Family Letters You Try To Decipher. A Tradition Is Also A Channel Of Memory Through Which Fierce And Unrequited Longings Surge, Longings That Define And Shape A Whole Life.

The Medium's Gaze Is Brief, Intense, And Promiscuous. The Shelf Life Of The Moral Causes It Makes Its Own Is Brutally Short.

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?

Canadians Want A Country. They Don't Want A Community Of Communities. I'm Committed To The National Unity Of The Country.

To Defeat Evil, We May Have To Traffic In Evils: Indefinite Detention Of Suspects, Coercive Interrogations, Targeted Assassinations, Even Pre-emptive War.

The Disagreeable Reality For Those Who Believe In Human Rights Is That There Are Some Occasions-and Iraq May Be One Of Them-when War Is The Only Real Remedy For Regimes That Live By Terror.

There's A Financial Cost, But The Only Costs That Are Ever Real Are The Costs Of Our Soldiers.

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.

They [afghans] Understand The Difficult Truth That Their Best Hope Of Freedom Lies In A Temporary Experience Of Imperial Rule.

Scar Tissue Is The Only Book Ive Ever Written When Ive Felt Completely Toxic, Ill.