All John Ralston Saul Quotes
- The acceptance of corporatism causes us to deny and undermine the legitimacy of the individual as citizen in a democracy. The result of such a… Acceptance
- An individual who stands out, or disagrees or takes risks is a danger to such systems and is effortlessly and, unconsciously sidelined. Danger
- The best defence [for a democracy, for the public good] is aggressiveness, the aggressiveness of the involved citizen. We need to reassert that slow, time-consuming,… Aggressiveness
- Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals as the citizen… Areas
- 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 is being reorganized… Always Tend
- The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument the planet is put in… Argument
- The Age of Reason has turned out to be the Age of Structure; a time when, in the absence of purpose, the drive for power… Absence
- I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good statistics. Double
- Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that the public has… Artistic
- Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order. Alphabetical
- All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the acceptance of differences,… Acceptance
- In general, democracy and individualism have advanced in spite of and often against specific economic interest. Both democracy and individualism have been based upon financial… Advanced
- Governments produced by the most banal of electoral victories, like those produced by the crudest of coups d'état, will always feel obliged to dress themselves… Always Feel
- Canada is either an idea or it does not exist. It is either an intellectual undertaking or it is little more than a resource-rich vacuum… Buffer
- We must discover how to ask simple questions of ourselves. Ask
- Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the… Balance
- Educating the masses was intended only to improve the relationship between the top and the bottom of society. Not for changing the nature of the… Bottom
- 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. We have to… Army
- Everyone has an equal right to inequality. Equal
- After a period in which technocrats attempted to become stars and stars to become politicians, the political void has been occupied by the force of… Attempted