Best John Ralston Saul Quotes
- Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy. Any
- Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day. Day
- Happy Hour: a depressing comment on the rest of the day and a victory for the most limited Dionysian view of human nature. Comment
- If economists were doctors, they would today be mired in malpractice suits. Doctors
- Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors. Died
- Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy. Anarchy
- Like all religions, Reason presents itself as the solution to the problems it has created All
- In a society of ideological believers, nothing is more ridiculous than the individual who doubts and does not conform. Believer
- Elites quite naturally define as the most important and admired qualities for a citizen those on which they themselves have concentrated. Admired
- We all need a bit of self-delusion. It gets us over the difficult spots. All
- Freud, Sigmund: A man so dissatisfied with his own mother and father that he devoted his life to convincing everyone who would listen — or… Bad
- United States:. A nation given either to unjustified over-enthusiasms or infantile furies. Enthusiasm
- There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting. Bean
- It is undoubtedly easier to believe in absolutes, follow blindly, mouth received wisdom. But that is self-betrayal. Absolutes
- Venereal: From Venus, the goddess of love, this word refers to the reality of desire. With the rise of Protestantism and science, the word disease… Categorization
- Faith: The opposite of dogmatism. Dogmatism
- If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state. All
- The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt. Boorish
- Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted. Accurately
- Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society. Exaltation
- Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death. Absolute
- Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise. Been
- A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption. Big
- Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong. Adopt
- 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 rejection… Agitation