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Michael Ignatieff Quotes

Canadian - Politician | May 12, 1947 -

Those with a gift for action, for their part, often express contempt for those whose gifts are more reflective. Men of action like to say, 'Those who can, do, those who can't, teach,' forgetting that those who teach get to write the history books.

Michael Ignatieff

History Men Action Gift Say Teach

Desert Storm created the pattern for the American way of war that eventually prevailed in Kosovo. America learned from Vietnam that unilateral use of force eventually forfeits international legitimacy and domestic support. Desert Storm demonstrated the political necessity of coalition warfare.

Michael Ignatieff

Storm War Support Desert Political

I went into politics thinking that, if I made arguments in good faith, I'd get a hearing. It's a reasonable assumption, but it's wrong. In five and a half years in politics up north, no one really bothered to criticize my ideas, such as they were. It was never my message that was the issue. It was always the messenger.

Michael Ignatieff

Good Faith Politics Ideas Thinking

Intellectuals are good at seeing the big picture. But they are not so good at process.

Michael Ignatieff

Good Process Picture Seeing Big

The core of human rights work is naming and shaming those who commit abuses, and pressuring governments to put the screws to abusing states. As a result, human rights conventions are unique among international law instruments in depending for their enforcement mostly on the activism of a global civil society movement.

Michael Ignatieff

Work Law Society Result Unique

I had a lot of hubris going into politics, but I didn't think I was Pierre Trudeau.

Michael Ignatieff

Politics Think Hubris Going Lot Had

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

Michael Ignatieff

Patriotism America Feeling Intense

Relying exclusively on air power has limits: planes are effective against fixed strategic targets, like petroleum storage, bridges, and command bunkers; but even then, air power rarely succeeds by itself in destroying a regime's ability to command and control its forces.

Michael Ignatieff

Power Control Limits Bridges Ability

I don't want to be someone sitting in my rocking chair at the end saying, 'Well, I passed.' My mum used to say life isn't for sissies.

Michael Ignatieff

Life Saying End Someone Chair Want

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 Country

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

World Someone Want Inside Own Who

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

Michael Ignatieff

Good People Believe Than Larger

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