"Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order.…" — John Ralston Saul

"Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order."

57 Quotes by John Ralston Saul

John Ralston Saul has 57 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The acceptance of corporatism causes us to deny and undermine the legitimacy of the individual as citizen in a democracy.…
An individual who stands out, or disagrees or takes risks is a danger to such systems and is effortlessly and,…
The best defence [for a democracy, for the public good] is aggressiveness, the aggressiveness of the involved citizen. We need…
Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy…
A commercial civilization is money-oriented, profit-oriented. Commercial values always tend to wrench a society free of tradition.Economics from education to…
The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument…
The Age of Reason has turned out to be the Age of Structure; a time when, in the absence of…
I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are…
Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such…
All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it…
In general, democracy and individualism have advanced in spite of and often against specific economic interest. Both democracy and individualism…
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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I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them… — Erma Bombeck
And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books… — Miguel de Cervantes
I didn't know the draft was in alphabetical order. — Henrik Zetterberg
A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order. — Anatole France
Okay everybody, line up in alphabetical order according to your height. — Casey Stengel
Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger… — Joseph Heller
I plan to rearrange the alphabetical order because i think it has a very big error on the parts of… — Unknown Author
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order. — Anatole France
The other day, I noticed I'd arranged my spices in alphabetical order when I was on the phone, without even… — Jayma Mays
I love arranging my music, not in alphabetical order but by mood, creating playlists for when I have energy and… — Natasha Bedingfield
Mrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order. — George Orwell
Someone with an obsession for arranging things in alphabetical order was an abcedist, whereas someone with an obsession for arranging… — Walter Moers

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