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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”

Stanley Knowles

Source: The New Party - (1961), Chapter 7, Program, p. 80 (See also: New World Order)

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

Stanley Knowles

Source: The New Party - (1961), Chapter 6, Structure, p. 60

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

Stanley Knowles

Source: The New Party - (1961), Chapter 7, Program, p. 83

“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.”

Stanley Knowles

Source: The New Party - (1961), Chapter 7, Program, p. 84

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

Stanley Knowles

Source: The New Party - (1961), Chapter 7, Program, p. 80

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

Stanley Knowles

Source: The New Party - (1961), Chapter 9, Is Your Criticism Here?, p. 117

Stanley Knowles Quotes

“If we can find the money - in other words, the raw materials and the men to do the work - to build skyscrapers and luxurious bank buildings in our large cities, if we can afford to maintain an elaborate defence establishment, if we can cope with the social costs that flow from life on the "other side of the tracks," we can well afford the expenditure of public money in programs designed to eliminate every last slum dwelling there is in this country, in programs designed to redevelop our communities, both urban and rural, toward the day when all our people will live in good homes.”

Stanley Knowles

Source: The New Party - (1961), Chapter 5, O Canada, p. 55-56
Context: Yet another means by which to distribute more equally the wealth our people create is by an all-out program in the building of homes. Where did we ever get the idea that it is all right for some Canadian children to grow up in slums and others in mansions? If we can find the money - in other words, the raw materials and the men to do the work - to build skyscrapers and luxurious bank buildings in our large cities, if we can afford to maintain an elaborate defence establishment, if we can cope with the social costs that flow from life on the "other side of the tracks," we can well afford the expenditure of public money in programs designed to eliminate every last slum dwelling there is in this country, in programs designed to redevelop our communities, both urban and rural, toward the day when all our people will live in good homes.

Life , Men , Money , People

“When a society spends more on advertising than it does on education, where is it headed?”

Stanley Knowles

Source: The New Party - (1961), Chapter 8, The Forecast Is Good, p. 102
Context: 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?

Education

“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?”

Stanley Knowles

Source: The New Party - (1961), Chapter 7, Program, p. 81

Way

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

Stanley Knowles

Source: The New Party - (1961), Chapter 7, Program, p. 82