Stanley Knowles citations

Stanley Howard Knowles est un homme politique canadien.

✵ 18. juin 1908 – 9. juin 1997
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Stanley Knowles: Citations en anglais

“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.”

Source: The New Party - (1961), Chapter 5, O Canada, p. 55-56
Contexte: 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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