List of Alex Campbell Quotes

To Conquer Nature Is, In Effect, To Remove All Natural Barriers And Human Norms And To Substitute Artificial, Fabricated Equivalents For Natural Processes.

We Must Carefully Examine Change So That We Are Able To Discard Those Aspects Of Change Which Would Be Detrimental To Our Way Of Life, And, At The Same Time, Take Advantage Of Those Aspects Of Change Which Will Enhance And Improve Our Quality Of Life.

We, In Our Province, Are Beginning To Realize And Appreciate That Our Slowness In Keeping Up With Our North American Neighbours May Well Have Been A Blessing In Disguise.

What We Are Only Now Beginning To Fully Realize Is That In Seeking Material Pleasure Too Constantly, The Capacity For Enjoyment Or Fulfillment Decreases And Eventually Becomes Exhausted.

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.

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.

From This Process Has Emerged A Parallel Process Of Translating Traditional Working And Living Values Into A New Political And Economic Power - A Power Increasingly Based Upon The Strength Of Money And Those Material Things Money Can Purchase.

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.

I Am Through With This Body, And What Becomes Of It Will Make No Difference With Me In The Future.

I Believe In God And Immortality.

I, Alexander B. Campbell, Make This Statement Of The Cause Of My Death To Relieve The Coroner Of The Necessity Of An Inquest, And Also Let My Friends Know The Motive That Led Me To Take My Own Life.

I Am Glad To Go With My Wife And Baby Boy.