Acceptance Quote by John Ralston Saul

Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals as the…

— John Ralston Saul

“Interest yourself in public affairs as a duty of citizenship, but do not surrender your faith to those who discredit and debase politics by…

— Grover Cleveland

When an opinion has taken root in a democracy and established itself in the minds of the majority, it afterward persists by itself, needing…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

But, that's the whole point of corporatization - to try to remove the public from making decisions over their own fate, to limit the…

— Noam Chomsky

We are the raison d'être of the entire system. We are also the employers of those in public office and in the public service.…

— John Ralston Saul

Sycophancy toward those who hold power is a fact in every regime, and especially in a democracy, where, unlike tyranny, there is an accepted…

— Allan Bloom

All corporatism – even when practised in societies where hard work, enterprise and cooperation are as highly valued as in Korea – encourages inflexibility,…

— Margaret Thatcher

“People don’t want the illusion of their manufactured personalities, their political saviors, shattered; personalities created by public relations industries. They don’t want to do…

— Chris Hedges

In an average day, you may well be confronted with some species of bullying or bigotry, or some ill-phrased appeal to the general will,…

— Christopher Hitchens

Were the radical democratic impulses of the American Revolution still driving US politics, it would be difficult to imagine corporatization of the kind witnessed…

— Ben Manski

If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to be intolerant. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Politics and self-interest have been so uniformly connected, that the world, from being so often deceived, has a right to be suspicious of public…

— Thomas Paine