"If economists were doctors, they would today be……" — John Ralston Saul
"If economists were doctors, they would today be mired in malpractice suits."
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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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All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim…
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If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
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We have a way of dealing with information that has sort of personal - personally identifying information in it. But…
— Julian Assange
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When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows…
— Enid Bagnold
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I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but…
— Tom Baker
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But I enjoyed getting sick, I didn't mind it at all. So in that short amount of time, I did…
— Christian Bale
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People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.
— Martha Beck
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Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but…
— Kate Beckinsale
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Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with…
— Donald Berwick
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You don't lie to your own doctor. You don't lie to your own attorney, and you don't lie to your…
— Gordon Bethune
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When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his…
— Hugo Black
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Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?
— Aeschylus
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