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Category: Michael Ignatieff

Michael Ignatieff

Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics – one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis.

Politics, Society, Political

Michael Ignatieff

Since Franklin Roosevelt’s leadership in setting up the United Nations and the Nuremberg trials, the U.S. has promoted universal legal norms and the institutions to enforce them while seeking, by hook or by crook, to exempt American citizens, especially soldiers, from their actual application.

American, Legal, Soldiers

Michael Ignatieff

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

Patriotism, America, Feeling

Michael Ignatieff

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.

Experience, Politics, Walk

Michael Ignatieff

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

afterlife, forgetting, memory

Michael Ignatieff

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

geneva-convention, human-rights, politics

Michael Ignatieff

Intolerance is a form of divided consciousness in which abstract, conceptual, ideological hatred vanquishes concrete, real and individual moments of identification.

intolerance, war

Michael Ignatieff

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

afterlife, forgetting, memory