Quote

I think all of us, politicians and churchmen, should do our utmost to change the society so that there would be no need for violence.

Pierre Trudeau

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Pierre Trudeau
Age: 80 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 18
Died: 2000
Died: September 28
Diarist
Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Journalist
Judge
Lawyer
Memoirist
Politician
Montreal
Quebec
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau
Needs
Churchmen
Would
Utmost
Think
Politicians
Thinking
Politician
Violence
Society
Change
Need

More quotes by Pierre Trudeau

Image
The federal government is the balance wheel of the federal system, and the federal system means using counterweights.
Pierre Trudeau
Image
It is wonderful to be despised, if, deep down, we know we are right.
Pierre Trudeau
Image
The Canadian community must invest, for the defence and better appreciation of the French language, as much time, energy, and money as are required to prevent the country from breaking up
Pierre Trudeau
Image
Power only tires those who don't exercise it.
Pierre Trudeau
Image
This is the beauty of the democratic process: it permits that subjective view of justice - which everyone holds - permits that subjective way to express itself peacefully through discussion, through reason and through the voting process.
Pierre Trudeau
Image
Bilingualism is not an imposition on the citizens. The citizens can go on speaking one language or six languages, or no languages if they so choose. Bilingualism is an imposition on the state and not the citizens.
Pierre Trudeau
Image
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.
Pierre Trudeau
Image
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 not moved by the arguments which are used.
Pierre Trudeau
Image
The next time you see Jesus Christ, ask Him what happened to the just society He promised 2,000 years ago.
Pierre Trudeau
Image
We don't think every man should be free to pass on everything to his descendants.
Pierre Trudeau
Image
I can see that in certain political situations you have to use force to overthrow police states.
Pierre Trudeau
Image
In academic life you seek to state absolute truths in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.
Pierre Trudeau
Image
I believe that Canada cannot, indeed, that Canada must not survive by force. The country will only remain united - it should only remain united - if its citizens want to live together in one civil society.
Pierre Trudeau
Image
The state has no place in the nation's bedrooms.
Pierre Trudeau
Image
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 something that is built every day out of certain basic shared values.
Pierre Trudeau
Image
Canada is seen to some as a confederation of shopping centres.
Pierre Trudeau
Image
In reality, though, the first thing to ask of history is that it should point out to us the paths of liberty. The great lesson to draw from revolutions is not that they devour humanity but rather that tyranny never fails to generate them.
Pierre Trudeau
Image
What shall we do about the Abortion Bill? A: Pay it!
Pierre Trudeau
Image
Democracy demands that elected members be able to realize fully the role for which they have been chosen.
Pierre Trudeau
Image
My life is one long curve, full of turning points.
Pierre Trudeau