B. W. Powe Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Then there were his encounters with the two mystics. Trudeau met Mounier only once, according to the Nemnis; and according to John English, he had only one direct encounter with Teilhard de Chardin.

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

Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.

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