Educating the masses was intended only to improve the relationship between the top and the bottom of society. Not for changing the nature of the relationship.

Canada is either an idea or it does not exist. It is either an intellectual undertaking or it is little more than a resource-rich vacuum lying in the buffer zone just north of a great empire.

The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.

Love: A term which has no meaning if defined.

Venereal: From Venus, the goddess of love, this word refers to the reality of desire. With the rise of Protestantism and science, the word disease was tacked on in a revealing combination of categorization and moralizing. Which disease? The disease of love.

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.

As an inclusive quality, imagination is thus our primary force for progress, whatever progress is.