“Basic technical training is, of course, useful. But to treat it as anything more than that is to lock students into technology… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
In Canada, there's a surprising worship of managerialism versus ownership and wealth creation. There's a real problem in this country with believing… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Management cannot solve problems. Nor can it stir creativity of any sort. It can only manage what it is given. If asked… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
If the technocratic class often invokes technology, it is because these inanimate objects can take on a trajectory of their own and… — 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
Our belief in salvation through the market is very much in the Utopian tradition. The economists and managers are the servants of… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
“If you cannot create, then buy a company that can. In particular, the large corporations buy small, personnally owned companies that have… — 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
