B.W. Powe Quotes

Enlightenment should be a human right.

A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.

We become slaves the moment we hand the keys to the definition of reality entirely over to someone else, whether it is a business, an economic theory, a political party, the White House, Newsworld or CNN.

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

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.

Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.

Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.

There must be engagement: there must be protest.

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

Each voice carries a portion of value, no matter how unpalatable or distasteful that voice may be: no one person, government, ideology, transnational, or religious institution can own and dominate the whole.

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.

Followers of another political party tell us that we will strengthen ourselves by ignoring our history, our traditions, our mythologies, our culture and vision, and by following the American way.

No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.

There is, it seems, an unbridgeable chasm between the concerns of a Sri Aurobindo and a Pat Robertson.