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I think violence is counter-productive and it is bad in democratic societies.
Pierre Trudeau
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Pierre Trudeau
Age: 80 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 18
Died: 2000
Died: September 28
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Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Journalist
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Montreal
Quebec
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau
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I, for one, will be convinced that the Canada we know and love will be gone forever. But, then, Thucydides wrote that Themistocles' greatness lay in the fact that he realized Athens was not immortal. I think we have to realize that Canada is not immortal but, if it is going to go, let it go with a bang rather than a whimper.
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I'm impatient not with the House of Commons as an institution, but with the way in which it is operated. This doesn't prove I don't believe in participatory democracy.
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I don't believe you can contain ideas by military force.
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I feel perhaps I didn't deal with the question of violence in depth.
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I think that religions must seek peace and love and therefore be pacifist.
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What is considered sinful in one of the great religions to which citizens belong isn't necessarily sinful in the others. Criminal law therefore cannot be based on the notion of sin it is crimes that it must define.
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I don't see any easy way of disqualifying people on the basis that they decide not to work.
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I do object to the sensationalism or even the voyeurism of doing things in church or out of church.
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There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation. What's done in private between adults doesn't concern the Criminal Code.
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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, shall we say with some Zoroastrians in the Far East, than I did with some Catholic missionaries.
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Democracy demands that elected members be able to realize fully the role for which they have been chosen.
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Paddling a canoe is a source of enrichment and inner renewal.
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We must now establish the basic principles, the basic values and beliefs which hold us together as Canadians so that beyond our regional loyalties there is a way of life and a system of values which make us proud of the country that has given us such freedom and such immeasurable joy.
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The federal government is the balance wheel of the federal system, and the federal system means using counterweights.
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The next time you see Jesus Christ, ask Him what happened to the just society He promised 2,000 years ago.
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I can see that in certain political situations you have to use force to overthrow police states.
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I think it's good that you test the reality that surrounds you in your neighbourhood with the reality as it is in other parts of the world you come up with a better judgment. I'm not meaning that literally you can only do that and not go to school at all but in terms of enrichment of a personality I think it's a fabulous thing.
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