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Quotes from Towards a Canada of Light — B. W. Powe

born 1955 Canada

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There must be engagement: there must be protest.

Towards a Canada of Light (2006)

The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.

Towards a Canada of Light (2006)

Democracies should be a delirium of choices - more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.

Towards a Canada of Light (2006)

Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory.

Towards a Canada of Light (2006)

If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.

Towards a Canada of Light (2006)

Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.

Towards a Canada of Light (2006)

May the ability to see many points of view keep us gentle.

Towards a Canada of Light (2006)

Canada is like several puzzles that we are all working on at the same time. Everyone has a part to add, but no one has seen the whole picture yet.

Towards a Canada of Light (2006)

If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.

Towards a Canada of Light (2006)

The corporatist-economic model of society appears to be governing us. Economists, often in the pay of transnationals, are deciding, for us, what democracy is, and will be.

Towards a Canada of Light (2006)

The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.

Towards a Canada of Light (2006)

Electrical fire and the fire of greed kindle economies. In that flux, nations become digitized commodities on stock-exchange floors and on investors' rating screens. A country becomes a product to be rated for its obedience to paying of deficits and debts.

Towards a Canada of Light (2006)

The myth of Canada, its hidden story, is of a contemplative country, a place of inwardness, where people can question the idea of nationhood and ponder what values we wish to see expressed and achieved, and what solitudes of identity and reverie we wish to preserve.

Towards a Canada of Light (2006)

We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness of scattered settlements, in what is now a sprawl of suburban edge cities and satellite towns. Technology forges connections and disconnections here.

Towards a Canada of Light (2006)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: B. W. Powe (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.