Because I am a deep believer in the civil society, I think we should be prepared to pay the consequences of breaking the law and that is either payin….

You just cannot cut a country in two any more than you can cut a human being in two. If you do, you do not have two human beings; you have a corpse..

I've always lived in a democratic society..

The politicians, who once stated that war was too complex to be left to the generals, now act as though peace were too complex to be left to themselv….

I believe a constitution can permit the co-existence of several cultures and ethnic groups with a single state..

A country, after all, is not something you build as the pharaohs built the pyramids, and then leave standing there to defy eternity. A country is som….

I am peaceful but I am not a pacifist in the philosophical sense..

This is the beauty of the democratic process: it permits that subjective view of justice - which everyone holds - permits that subjective way to expr….

I think that the history of the past hundred years has shown us that, by and large, the one linguistic group to whom separatism is being preached is ….

Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent..

When they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill, they are no longer honourable members, they are just nobodies..

I feel perhaps I didn't deal with the question of violence in depth..

In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you..

I remember thinking that walking on the beach as a free man is pretty desirable..

I'm sometimes impatient with young people who demonstrate at my meetings and who don't want an argument, but who just want to go on television as hav….

It is wonderful to be despised, if, deep down, we know we are right..

As does every young man studying philosophy, I naturally asked myself questions about the truth of all this, and about the meaning of freedom, predes….

Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply to new problems….

I never actually got around to taping conversations with my guests, but there are a lot of things you can learn from a man like Nixon..

I was inclined to judge the validity of a man's faith more by the depth of his roots in reality and brotherhood and love. So I felt more at home, sha….

I'm far from believing that we've solved the problem of violence in the 20th century and that's why I'm not discouraged that we still have the Biafra….