When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
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Will Rogers
Just because you came to the end of your rope, doesn't mean that you were climbing down.
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Anthony T. Hincks
I like living in my head because in there, everyone is kind and innocent. Once you start integrating yourself into the world, you realize that people are nasty, mean creatures. They're worse than zombies. People try to crush your soul and destroy your happiness, but...
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J. Cornell Michel
You know if you would just do as I say I wouldn't have to hurt you.
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Amanda Stephan
I look around and see so much fear, people getting more and more comfortable with their hate, more at ease being mean, more united in their separation. And I think, NO. Not me. I will not get lost in this fearful world. I will not...
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Scott Stabile
More Quotes By Michael Ignatieff
Intolerance is a form of divided consciousness in which abstract, conceptual, ideological hatred vanquishes concrete, real and individual moments of identification.
...our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration.
Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray.
An ethnic minority can live in peace with an ethnic majority as long as the majority does not use its preponderance to turn the institutions of the state into an instrument of ethnic favoritism or ethnic justice.
One of the greatest feelings in life is the conviction that you have lived the life you wanted to live-with the rough and the smooth, the good and the bad-but yours, shaped by your own choices, and not someone else's.
