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Alex Campbell Quotes

Canadian - Politician | December 1, 1933 -

I am through with this body, and what becomes of it will make no difference with me in the future.

Future I Am Me Body Will Difference

I have no ill will in my heart against anybody in this world.

Heart World Will Against Anybody

I go gladly to my wife and boy, and I leave this world at peace with every one in it and at peace with God.

God Peace Wife World Go Boy

Over the past several years, all of us as Canadians, and as members of the North American cultural and economic environment, have been to a greater or lesser extent party to a significant attitudinal change towards our culture.

Change Culture Past American Party

Some would suggest that there has been a dramatic change in our perception of the world and ourselves within the world. Others have observed that there has been an almost complete about-face in a relatively short span of time.

Change Time World Perception Short

Over the past few years, many of us have increasingly begun to question the direction and meaning of our society as it has developed over the past several centuries.

Past Society Direction Meaning Over

But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society, essential ingredients to a meaningful life seem to be either entirely lacking, or at best, difficult to grasp.

Life Best Progress Society Difficult

Even with, or perhaps, because of, this background, I have over the past few years sensed a very dramatic change in attitude on the part of Prince Edward Islanders towards the on-going rush for so-called modernization.

Change Attitude Past Over Years

We, in Prince Edward Island, are fully familiar with this modern phenomenon.

Island Modern Prince Familiar Edward

However, if we examine the Canadian scene closely enough, we can see signs of this physical and spiritual rot settling into a number of our Canadian urban centres with a troubling spill-over into many of our more rural areas.

Spiritual Enough More Signs See Our

As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.

Power Quality Excellence Progress

We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human alienation.

Human Terrible Alienation Dependency

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