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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

Andrew Saul is John Hall in a business suit. He's wrong on the war, on national security, immigration, abortion. He's Sue Kelly all over again. — Andrew Saul

He was my father, darling, but I have to confess I didn't like him very much. — John 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

You love her, even if you don't believe you do. You're used to her, and a lot of love is nothing more than habit. — John 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

Making someone die, he was suddenly sure, was different from killing them. He could never kill anyone. But he could make someone die. — John Saul

Forty-three years old, and still afraid of my father. Some tycoon, hunh? — John 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

If you open your house to strangers, who knows who might come in. And what they might be after. Or whom. — John Saul

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong. — John Ralston Saul

Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy. — John Ralston Saul

All I want is to be left alone. That's why I have that fence. It's not only to keep the critters in. It's to keep people out. — John 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

There's a lot of people around here, me included, who think she talked him into an early grave, and that he wasn't the least bit sorry to go. — John 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. — John Ralston Saul

Anglo Saxons: To blame for everything. — John Ralston Saul

I've given you everything a friend can give, Joe Saul-even contempt, and that's the hardest thing of all. — John Steinbeck

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

Faith: The opposite of dogmatism. — 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 — John Ralston Saul

The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt. — John Ralston Saul

John Hawkes is an extraordinary writer. I have always admired his books. They should he more widely read. — Saul Bellow

We all need a bit of self-delusion. It gets us over the difficult spots. - John Ralston Saul, On Equilibrium — John Ralston Saul

What it would be like to simply disappear into the blackness, to float forever in silence and nothingness. — John 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

Capitalism was reasonably content under Hitler, happy under Mussolini, very happy under Franco and delirious under General Pinochet. — John Ralston Saul

In all earlier civilizations, it should be remembered, commerce was treated as a narrow activity and by no means the senior sector in society. — John Ralston Saul

Dictionary - opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order. — John Ralston Saul