"It is undoubtedly easier to believe in absolutes,……" — John Ralston Saul
"It is undoubtedly easier to believe in absolutes, follow blindly, mouth received wisdom. But that is self-betrayal."
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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 Absolutes Quotes
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There are no absolutes in golf. Golf is such an individual game, and no two people swing alike.
— Kathy Whitworth
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All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes…
— Ayn Rand
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The laughter in response to my question unmasked the double standard our deconstructionists espouse. And that is precisely the double…
— Ravi Zacharias
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...any belief in supernatural creators, rulers, or influencers of natural or human process introduces an irreparable split into the universe,…
— Julian Huxley
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I have made three rules of writing for myself that are absolutes: Never take advice. Never show or discuss work…
— Raymond Chandler
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Doing the right thing at all costs is an absolute, and only a sith deals in absolutes.
— Dave Filoni
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The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded…
— Charles Dickens
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There is no god and there is no soul. Hence, there is no need for the props of traditional religion.…
— John Dewey
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Meaning can only be understood in relation to its environment. Therefore, the words only make full sense in context... There…
— Serge King
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There are very few certainties that touch us all in this mortal experience, but one of the absolutes is that…
— James Dobson
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God reveals to His prophets that there are moral absolutes. Sin will always be sin. Disobedience to the Lord’s commandments…
— L. Tom Perry
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