"Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting……" — John Ralston Saul
"Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen."
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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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A commercial civilization is money-oriented, profit-oriented. Commercial values always tend to wrench a society free of tradition.Economics from education to…
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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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More Balance Quotes
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I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can…
— Alexis Arguello
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That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world,…
— Timothy Garton Ash
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I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere…
— David Attenborough
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The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be…
— Diane Ackerman
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The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.
— Irving Babbitt
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The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
— Irving Babbitt
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It isn't that women are less ambitious,but women want to find a balance between work, love, and family.
— Michelle Bachelet
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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action…
— James A. Baldwin
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I just want to make sure I have a sense of balance between work and life, because work is my…
— Drew Barrymore
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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
— Max Beerbohm
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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are…
— Warren G. Bennis
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The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships,…
— Andrew Bernstein
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