The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.
B. W. POWEWe become slaves the moment we hand the keys to the definition of reality entirely over to someone else, whether it is a business, an economic theory, a political party, the White House, Newsworld or CNN.
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Electrical fire and the fire of greed kindle economies. In that flux, nations become digitized commodities on stock-exchange floors and on investors’ rating screens. A country becomes a product to be rated for its obedience to paying of deficits and debts.
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Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.
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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.
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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.
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There is, it seems, an unbridgeable chasm between the concerns of a Sri Aurobindo and a Pat Robertson.
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May the ability to see many points view keep us gentle.
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Democracies should be a delirium of choices – more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.
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If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.
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If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.
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The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.
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A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals.
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Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.
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Threaten the balances of justice and you threaten the potential enlargements of mind and soul. Therefore justice is part of the safeguarding of the heart.
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Followers of another political party tell us that we will strengthen ourselves by ignoring our history, our traditions, our mythologies, our culture and vision, and by following the American way.
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No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.
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