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Society Quotes by John Ralston Saul
- 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…
- 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…
- In a society of ideological believers, nothing is more ridiculous than the individual who doubts and does not conform.
- Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.
- Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.
- The void in our society has been produced by the absence of values... we have no widespread belief in the value of participation. The rational…
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- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
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- In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. — Neil Armstrong
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- Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — Francis of Assisi