B. W. Powe Quotes

Threaten the balances of justice and you threaten the potential enlargements of mind and soul. Therefore justice is part of the safeguarding of the heart.

Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.

It began in images and it ended in symbolism.

Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.

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

Enlightenment should be a human right.

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.

There must be engagement: there must be protest.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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