“If, as is believed by many Canadians, Canada can not exist without Quebec, then it simply does not deserve to exist.”
Si, comme le croient plusieurs Canadiens, le Canada ne peut exister sans le Québec, alors il ne mérite tout simplement pas d'exister.
La Colère. Écrits polémiques. Lanctôt Éditeur, 1996 p.257, tome 3
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Canadian politician 1934–2003Related quotes
“A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.”
The Last Page, p. 7.
A History of Reading (1996)

“You grieve
Not that heaven does not exist but
That it exists without us”
Source: The Second Four Books of Poems: The Moving Target / The Lice / The Carrier of Ladders / Writings to an Unfinished Accompaniment

Responding to Michael Ignatieff's Quebec nationalism proposal during a CTV interview on Canada AM.
2017

Towards a Systems Theory of Organization, 1985, From Data to Wisdom, 1989
Preface, p. 15, sentence 4.
The Christian Agnostic (1965)
Preface, p. 14, sentence 12.
The Christian Agnostic (1965)

Give Me Liberty (1936)
Context: The picture of the economic revolution as the final step to freedom was false as soon as I asked myself that question. For, in actual fact, The State, The Government, cannot exist. They are abstract concepts, useful enough in their place, as the theory of minus numbers is useful in mathematics. In actual living experience, however, it is impossible to subtract anything from nothing; when a purse is empty, it is empty, it cannot contain a minus ten dollars. On this same plane of actuality, no State, no Government, exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.

“By knowing things that exist, you can know that which does not exist. That is the void.”
Go Rin No Sho (1645), The Book No-Thing-ness
Context: What is called the spirit of the void is where there is nothing. It is not included in man's knowledge. Of course the void is nothingness. By knowing things that exist, you can know that which does not exist. That is the void.