Michael Ignatieff Quotes

A liberal society cannot be defended by herbivores. We need carnivores to save us, but we had better make sure the meat-eaters hunt only on our orders.

Michael Ignatieff

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• What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope... It is not a reflection of all religious people.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • World
  • Religious

• I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.

  

  Barnett Newman
  • Hope
  • Giving
  • Feeling

• I guess I am a rapper. It's weird to be called that, or tell someone that's your profession.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Profession
  • Rapper

• You're on your own with the book. And while you are writing fiction, you're spending all this time with people who don't actually exist, which is just madness.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Time
  • Writing

• No action is without its side effects.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Action
  • Without
  • Side

• I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Song

• A lecturer once told me I could never be a director. I was 16. I believed him.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Me
  • Director
  • Him

• I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Work
  • Great
  • Art

• I usually spend Valentines Day with my friends. But if I did have a girlfriend, I'd bring her flowers and candy.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Friends
  • Day
  • Girlfriend

• Hold on to the great image, and the whole world follows, follows unharmed, content and completely at peace.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • World
  • Peace
  • Image

• 'Curiosity never killed this cat’ — that’s what I’d like as my epitaph.

  

  Studs Terkel
  • Cat
  • Curiosity

• I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Good
  • Power
  • Hope

• I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Bad
  • Sometimes
  • Theatre

• It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches.

  

  Adam Brown
  • Room
  • Odd
  • Sharing

• A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • Interesting
  • Effort
  • Liberal

• As a liberal, I am morally obligated to be pragmatic. What good do I do poor people, elderly people, people who are being discriminated against because of their sexual orientation if I'm not realistic about accomplishing something.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Liberal
  • Sexual
  • Orientation

• The new, young, chic and acquisitive rich, the restless young Europeans and the beautiful people still flit from Palm Beach's polo fields to Newport's yachts with refueling stops at Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent and Tiffany.

  

  Charlotte Curtis
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Beach

• A liberal society cannot be defended by herbivores. We need carnivores to save us, but we had better make sure the meat-eaters hunt only on our orders.

  

  Michael Ignatieff
  • Liberal
  • Carnivores
  • Eaters