Michael Ignatieff Quotes
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.
Michael Ignatieff
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We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.
Zac Brown Band
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
Walter Scott
The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth.
Mae Jemison
Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
Nathan Myhrvold
The key to U.N. reform is giving Americans a clearer picture of what the U.N. is and what it isn't, what it can be and what it can't be.
Samantha Power
I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.
Karl Lagerfeld
Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
Abraham Lincoln
Without passion there might be no errors, but without passion there would certainly be no history.
C. V. Wedgwood
Marx's theories gave me a political and intellectual justification for what I believed in a way that nothing else did.
Neil Kinnock
The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it; nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.
Miguel de Cervantes
The highest triumph of art, is the truest presentation of nature.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
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.
Michael Ignatieff