"A commercial civilization is money-oriented, profit-oriented. Commercial values……" — 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 on the self-destructive basis of self-interest."
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John Ralston Saul
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57 Quotes by John Ralston Saul
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The acceptance of corporatism causes us to deny and undermine the legitimacy of the individual as citizen in a democracy.…
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An individual who stands out, or disagrees or takes risks is a danger to such systems and is effortlessly and,…
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The best defence [for a democracy, for the public good] is aggressiveness, the aggressiveness of the involved citizen. We need…
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Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy…
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The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument…
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The Age of Reason has turned out to be the Age of Structure; a time when, in the absence of…
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I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are…
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Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such…
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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…
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In general, democracy and individualism have advanced in spite of and often against specific economic interest. Both democracy and individualism…
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Governments produced by the most banal of electoral victories, like those produced by the crudest of coups d'état, will always…
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