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Danh ngôn của Michael Ignatieff (Sứ mệnh: 2)

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.
Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.
There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.
Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics.
Since Franklin Roosevelt's leadership in setting up the United Nations and the Nuremberg trials, the U.S. has promoted universal legal norms and the institutions to enforce them while seeking, by hook or by crook, to exempt American citizens, especially soldiers, from their actual application.
Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis.
Loving a country is an act of the imagination.
Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful society.