You can always tell you're in deep trouble when people start thinking money's real. — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
People cannot do what they cannot think, and they cannot think what they cannot say. — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
In the European tradition, rivers are seen as divisions between peoples. But in the Aboriginal tradition, rivers are seen as the glue,… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
One of the things non-aboriginal Canadians learned from aboriginal people over the last 400 years is you don't have to be one… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
The faithful witness, like...Socrates, Voltaire, and Swift and Christ himself, is at his best when he is questioning and clarifying and avoiding… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
People are always saying it's the end of the Gutenberg era. More to the point, it's a return to an oral era.… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
When you go back and look at what people say about my essays, they're always going, 'What is this?' Because they're not… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Some people don't like the 'comeback' because that suggests they went somewhere, which they didn't. That isn't what I mean. In my… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
After all, in both languages we were dealing in large measure not with English and French, but with Scots and Irish, Bretons… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Obviously we don't have 300 million people. We haven't got a big army. We don't have Hollywood. We're a medium small-sized country.… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
How can we possibly say the root of the Canadian approach to citizenship and immigration comes from Europe or the United States?… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
The transnational corporations and the money markets have declared the era of human-designed regulations over. Now the market must reign. Because few… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Not only is the Napoleonic dream stronger today in our imaginations than it has ever been, but one can already feel the… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Now listen to the first three aims of the corporatist movement in Germany, Italy and France during the 1920s. These were developed… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Of course, corporations and governments have a right to something for their money. They pay the wages. But they don't have the ethical right… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share
Some people don't like the 'comeback' because that suggests they went somewhere, which they didn't. That isn't what I mean. In my mind, people… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share
In the humanist ideal, the mainstream is where interesting debate, the generating of new ideas and creativity take place. In rational society this mainstream… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share
There's two ways of dealing with fears of mortality. One of them is to hide, so every day you wear the same suit and… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share
A foreigner is an individual who is considered either comic or sinister. When the victim of a disaster - preferably natural but sometimes political… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share
Rights are a protection from society. But only by fulfilling their obligations to society can the individual give meaning to that protection. (V -… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share
All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the acceptance of… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share
The neo-conservatives, who are closely linked to the neo-corporatists, are rather different. They claim to be conservatives, when everything they stand for is a… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share
Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy. — John Ralston Saul Copy Share
In the European tradition, rivers are seen as divisions between peoples. But in the Aboriginal tradition, rivers are seen as the glue, the highway,… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share
“Basic technical training is, of course, useful. But to treat it as anything more than that is to lock students into technology that will… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share
Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted. — John Ralston Saul Copy Share
If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share
For about 125 years, give or take, the Canadian government has acted extremely badly - even in a way which should be called evil… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share
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 Copy Share
