Stanley Knowles Quotes

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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?

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The fearsome fact of our time is that other elements than the government have assumed the role of directing our affairs. To a very large extent the way we live and the things we live for are determined by the interests of powerful and monopolistic corporations

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

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

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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.

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Expensive firefighting equipment is rushed to the scene immediately on the sound of an alarm no matter what is on fire. Elaborate freeways in our metropolitan areas, costing many millions of dollars, are available to any motor vehicle. Microwave systems bring to ones television a program or view of an event taking place thousands of miles away. For the same few cents one can send a letter a short distance or across the continent.

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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.

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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?

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

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

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

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