"Dictionary - opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical……" — John Ralston Saul
"Dictionary - opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order."
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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 Alphabet Quotes
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one of 182 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them…
— Erma Bombeck
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I've always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet, ... The White T.
— Giorgio Armani
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Of all the achievements of the human mind, the birth of the alphabet is the most momentous.
— Frederic Goudy
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The policy of letting the child 'do what he likes' is an insidious one, since the children are encouraged to…
— Murray Rothbard
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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental…
— Jonathan Swift
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I read someplace that I used to make B-pictures. Hell, they were a lot farther down the alphabet than that…
— John Wayne
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As the component parts of all new machines may be said to be old[,] it is a nice discriminating judgment,…
— Robert Fulton
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I haven't seen someone so overmatched since Mike Tyson tried to recite the alphabet.
— Dennis Miller
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The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the…
— Marcel Duchamp
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Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.
— Victor Hugo
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P.S. - This is what part of the alphabet would look like if Q and R were eliminated.
— Mitch Hedberg
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It's the Roman numeral for 10. 5/5/89 is my birthday: 5 plus 5 is 10, and this is my tenth…
— Chris Brown
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