To defeat evil, we may have to traffic in evils: indefinite detention of suspects, coercive interrogations, targeted assassinations, even pre-emptive war.
Michael IgnatieffPolitical utopias are a form of nostalgia for an imagined past projected onto the future as a wish.
Michael IgnatieffI'm very struck by what you can do in a classroom. I've got 200 students. You don't do partisan politics in a classroom, that's not appropriate. But you want to give them a strong sense that these are the issues that matter.
Michael IgnatieffScar Tissue is the only book Ive ever written when Ive felt completely toxic, ill.
Michael Ignatieff