If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.

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.

Obviously we don't have 300 million people. We haven't got a big army. We don't have Hollywood. We're a medium small-sized country. We have to do what medium small-sized countries do, which-even though we're not smarter than other people-is to make ourselves seem to be smarter. We have to work harder and know more than other people.

People cannot do what they cannot think, and they cannot think what they cannot say.

Love: A term which has no meaning if defined.

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

Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.