Michael Ignatieff Quotes

"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
(Related: War, Day, Srebrenica)

"There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries."
- Michael Ignatieff
(Related: Countries, Nationalism)

"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
(Related: Nations, State, states, Want, World)

"The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war will be increasingly abstract, hard to think about and hard to control."
- Michael Ignatieff
(Related: War, Control, Computer, Future, Lawyers, May, Will)

"Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted."
- Michael Ignatieff
(Related: Patriotism, Country, Feeling)

"It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves."
- Michael Ignatieff
(Related: People, Causes)

"I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke."
- Michael Ignatieff
(Related: Peace)

"I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism."
- Michael Ignatieff
(Related: Patriotism, Nationalism)

"How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual?"
- Michael Ignatieff
(Related: War, People, American)

"All war aims for impunity."
- Michael Ignatieff
(Related: War)

"We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it."
- Michael Ignatieff
(Related: War, Now)

"There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers."
- Michael Ignatieff
(Related: Financial, Soldiers)

"There's a way in which these guys all think absolutely media, day and night. Access is what it's all about, so they spin 24 hours a day and that's a problem."
- Michael Ignatieff
(Related: Day, Media, Night)

"Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam."
- Michael Ignatieff
(Related: Experience, War, Defeat, Draft, End, Vietnam)

"What we want is to become masters in our own house."
- Michael Ignatieff
(Related: Want)