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Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors.
— John Ralston Saul
Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.
— John Ralston Saul
Faith: The opposite of dogmatism.
— John Ralston Saul
We must discover how to ask simple questions of ourselves.
— John Ralston Saul
I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good statistics.
— John Ralston Saul
Everyone has an equal right to inequality.
— John Ralston Saul
It is undoubtedly easier to believe in absolutes, follow blindly, mouth received wisdom. But that is self-betrayal.
— John Ralston Saul
In a society of ideological believers, nothing is more ridiculous than the individual who doubts and does not conform.
— John Ralston Saul
A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption.
— John Ralston Saul
Happy Hour: a depressing comment on the rest of the day and a victory for the most limited Dionysian view of human nature.
— John Ralston Saul
United States:. A nation given either to unjustified over-enthusiasms or infantile furies.
— John Ralston Saul
Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value.
— John Ralston Saul
Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.
— John Ralston Saul
Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy.
— John Ralston Saul
Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.
— John Ralston Saul
You can always tell you're in deep trouble when people start thinking money's real.
— John Ralston Saul
Love: A term which has no meaning if defined.
— John Ralston Saul
There is no need to search for global solutions, apart from an absolute necessity to destroy the idea that such things exist.
— John Ralston Saul
[C]ontent [is] an obstacle to the exercise of power.
— John Ralston Saul
People cannot do what they cannot think, and they cannot think what they cannot say.
— John Ralston Saul
As an inclusive quality, imagination is thus our primary force for progress, whatever progress is.
— John Ralston Saul
If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.
— John Ralston Saul
He who burns with ambition to become aedile, tribune, praetor, consul, dictator, cries out that he loves his country and he loves only himself.
— John Ralston Saul
Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day.
— John Ralston Saul
Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.
— John Ralston Saul
An individual who stands out, or disagrees or takes risks is a danger to such systems and is effortlessly and, unconsciously sidelined.
— John Ralston Saul
Ten geographers who think the world is flat will tend to reinforce each other's errors ... Only a sailor can set them straight.
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Anglo Saxons: To blame for everything.
— John Ralston Saul
Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.
— John Ralston Saul
McDonald's is the ultimate symbol of passive conformity.
— John Ralston Saul
Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order.
— John Ralston Saul
Elites quite naturally define as the most important and admired qualities for a citizen those on which they themselves have concentrated.
— John Ralston Saul
Dictionary - opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order.
— John Ralston Saul
Which is ideology? Which not? You shall know them by their assertion of truth, their contempt for considered reflection, and their fear of debate.
— John Ralston Saul
If economists were doctors, they would today be mired in malpractice suits.
— John Ralston Saul
Like all religions, Reason presents itself as the solution to the problems it has created
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The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.
— John Ralston Saul
We all need a bit of self-delusion. It gets us over the difficult spots. - John Ralston Saul, On Equilibrium
— John Ralston Saul
Richard Atleo's Principles of Tsawalk,
— John Ralston Saul
There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting.
— John Ralston Saul