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Quotes from The New Party — Stanley Knowles

d. 1997

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What shall it profit us, unless life in the midst of it all has meaning? When a society spends more on advertising than it does on education, where is it headed?

The New Party (1961)

Ideas change the world, but they do it by assuming shape, they do it by taking concrete form.

The New Party (1961)

Workers do not try to prevent employers from making contributions to political parties the workers do not support.

The New Party (1961)

Education is still starved. It is the cornerstone of any civilized society and the sharpest sword in the defence of freedom, but it is still the step child of governments and corporations alike.

The New Party (1961)

Plan-less profit-seeking as practiced by the West cannot match the planned export policies of the East.

The New Party (1961)

One of the facts of history is that battles do not stay won. Those that matter have to be waged again and again.

The New Party (1961)

All told it is a new world. It calls for new ideas. In Canada it calls for a New Party.

The New Party (1961)

The kinds of homes or communities people live in, the resources available for health, education, and security in old age - all these things are subject to the decisions of rulers we do not elect.

The New Party (1961)

What shall it profit us to live in an affluent society if the things we produce and the ways in which we distribute them fail to contribute to the achievement of human dignity and social values?

The New Party (1961)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Stanley Knowles (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.