"Freud, Sigmund: A man so dissatisfied with his……" — John Ralston Saul
"Freud, Sigmund: A man so dissatisfied with his own mother and father that he devoted his life to convincing everyone who would listen — or better still, talk — that their parents were just as bad."
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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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I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Bad men are full of repentance.
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It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's…
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Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen…
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I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles -…
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
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If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'.
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People that go through what I went through and people going through divorce, it's really a difficulty process; it's heartbreaking…
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If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?'…
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From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any…
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end.…
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