"Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of……" — John Ralston Saul
"Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death."
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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 Absolute Quotes
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I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become…
— Giorgio Armani
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
— Lord Acton
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A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity,…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
— Henry Adams
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What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially…
— Dave Barry
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No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath…
— Bruce Barton
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
— Aneurin Bevan
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Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
— Theodor Adorno
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