Quote by: Michael Ignatieff

Free societies, which allow differences to speak and be heard, and live by intermarriage, commerce, and free migration, and democratic societies, which convert enemies into adversaries and reconcile differences without resort to violence, are societies in which the genocidal temptation is unlikely and even inconceivable.


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Author Bio


  • NameMichael Ignatieff
  • Descriptionprofessor at Harvard Kennedy School and former Canadian politician
  • BornMay 12, 1947
  • CountryCanada
  • ProfessionJournalist; Historian; Author; Politician; Novelist; Philosopher
  • AwardsCanada India Foundation ("CIF") Chanchlani Global Indian Award; Hannah Arendt Prize