For about 125 years, give or take, the Canadian government has acted extremely badly - even in a way which should be… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Governments produced by the most banal of electoral victories, like those produced by the crudest of coups d'état, will always feel obliged… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong. — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Happy family: The existence and maintenance of [this] is thought to make a politician fit for public office. According to this theory,… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
In the early 1980s, the government of New Zealand fell into the hands of true believers, globalist believers, and they embraced the… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
“the regional governments can't raise taxes. The source of revenue would simply leave for another region. In fact, the effect of decentralization… — 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… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Certain governments are suggesting that bloggers and tweeters aren't 'real' writers and, so, don't merit protection. A writer is anyone from a… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
“Virtually every politician portrayed in film or on television over the last decade has been venal, corrupt, opportunistic, cynical, if not worse.… — 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
After a period in which technocrats attempted to become stars and stars to become politicians, the political void has been occupied by… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
The most powerful force possessed by the individual citizen is her own government. ... Government is the only organized mechanism that makes… — 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
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