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John Ralston Saul has 59 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The acceptance of corporatism causes us to deny and undermine the legitimacy of the individual as citizen in a democracy. The result…
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An individual who stands out, or disagrees or takes risks is a danger to such systems and is effortlessly and, unconsciously sidelined.
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The best defence [for a democracy, for the public good] is aggressiveness, the aggressiveness of the involved citizen. We need to reassert…
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Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals…
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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…
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The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument the planet…
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The Age of Reason has turned out to be the Age of Structure; a time when, in the absence of purpose, the…
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I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good…
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Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that…
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Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order.
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All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the…
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In general, democracy and individualism have advanced in spite of and often against specific economic interest. Both democracy and individualism have been…
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Without out suffering, our work would just be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of…
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Evangelism without social work is deficient; social work without evangelism is impotent.
— John Mott
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Respect for human rights is not social work; it is not merely an act of compassion. It is the first obligation of…
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But if we leave them alone, just satisfying ourselves with social work, economic work and the building up of a national army,…
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The government should now launch an initiative to encourage people to join the social work profession.
— Andy Sawford
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All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the…
— John Ralston Saul
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I would say that social work began in my mind in the Unitarian Church when I was ten or twelve years old,…
— Roger Nash Baldwin
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We try to use our experiences as leverage for our social work, to help children to get education because that is the…
— Vitali Klitschko
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Politics is social work with power.
— Barbara Mikulski
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Without our suffering, our work would simply be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of…
— Mother Teresa
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I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.
— Carl Rakosi
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I think kids have got to learn how to work with what's happening, work with social, work with everything. To complain about…
— Diplo
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