“To defeat evil, we may have to traffic in evils: indefinite detention of suspects, coercive interrogations, targeted assassinations, even pre-emptive war.” MayWarEvilDefeatSuspectsTrafficAssassinationInterrogationDetention Author:Michael Ignatieff
“There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers.” RealCostSoldierFinancial Author:Michael Ignatieff
“In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life, false ideas can ruin the lives of millions and useless ones can waste precious resources. An intellectual's responsibility for his ideas is to follow their consequences wherever they may lead. A politician's responsibility is to master those consequences and prevent them from doing harm. Michael Ignatieff, a former professor at Harvard and contributing writer for the magazine, is a member of Canada's Parliament and deputy leader of the Liberal Party.” MayIdeasWarPlayPoliticalFunPartyResponsibilityLeaderMillionsMastersPoliticianMembersWasteIntellectualConsequenceResourcesHarmMagazinesRuinsFormerUselessCanadaProfessorsAcademicParliamentHarvardContributingPolitical LifeDeputiesLiberal PartyAcademic Life Author:Michael Ignatieff
“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.” WarHappenedHugeHistoricalSecretaryTurning PointsBosnians Author:Michael Ignatieff
“It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves.” PeopleBelieveCauses Author:Michael Ignatieff
“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.” ThinkingMayMeanWarHardComputerLawyerAbstractSpecialistsTechnicians Author:Michael Ignatieff
“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.” WorldWantStatesNations Author:Michael Ignatieff
