Quotes by Michael Ignatieff

• There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.
• 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.
• There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.
• 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.
• 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.
• Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.
• It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves.
• I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke.
• I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.
• How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual?
• All war aims for impunity.
• We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.
• There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our 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.
• 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.
• What we want is to become masters in our own house.