B. W. Powe Quotes

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

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.

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

Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

We remake the world through our technologies, and these in turn remake and extend us, in ever spiraling lattices of complexity. McLuhan uncannily foresaw the future, where electronic technology would shape and expand cultures and societies into a global membrane of communications.