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Michael Ignatieff

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Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray.


— Michael Ignatieff


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...our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration.


— Michael Ignatieff


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


— Michael Ignatieff


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


— Michael Ignatieff


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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


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


— Michael Ignatieff


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


— Michael Ignatieff


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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


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I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.


— Michael Ignatieff


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


— Michael Ignatieff


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About Michael Ignatieff

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Did you know about Michael Ignatieff?

In 2005 he was criticized by his peers on the editorial board for the Index on Censorship where human rights advocate Conor Gearty said Ignatieff fell into a category of "hand-wringing apologetic apologists for human-rights abuses". In a speech to the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce in February 2009 he said; "You can't win elections if you're adding to the input costs of a farmer putting diesel into his tractor or you're adding to the input costs of a fiMichael Ignatieffrman putting diesel into his fishing boat or a trucker transporting goods". This would become a frequent topic in his lectures.

That same year he ran for the leadership of the Liberal Party ultimately losing to Stéphane Dion. : /ɪɡˈnæti. On May 3 2011 Ignatieff announced that he would resign as leader of the Liberal Party pending the selection of an interim leader which became effective May 25 2011.

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