If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
A commercial civilization is money-oriented, profit-oriented. Commercial values always tend to wrench a society free of tradition.Economics from education to public service… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
“the marketplace is capable only of calculating exclusive costs; that is; excluding all possible costs that interfere with profit. Leadership of society… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Traditionally in capitalism, when you have more cash, you can fund more activity, which produces more jobs and creates more wealth. That's… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Capitalism was reasonably content under Hitler, happy under Mussolini, very happy under Franco and delirious under General Pinochet. — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with paying taxes; they should be paid in proportion to how rich you are. This idea that you're going… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
“Our essential difficulty is that we are seeking in a mechanism, which is necessary, qualities it simply does not possess. The market… — 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 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 mind, people… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy. — 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, the highway,… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
