"The citizen's job is to be rude -……" — John Ralston Saul
"The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt."
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John Ralston Saul
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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 Boorish Quotes
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"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Democrats see our voluntary military supported by taxpayer dollars as their personal Salvation Army. Self-interested behavior, such as deploying troops…
— Ann Coulter
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Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.
— Aristotle
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To many, Homer may appear lazy and a loser, but he's just much misguided. He's boorish, sure, but well meaning…
— Dan Castellaneta
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Contrary to what you may have heard from Henry Rollins or/and Ian MacKaye and/or anyone else who joined a band…
— Chuck Klosterman
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The most wretched people in the world are those who tell you they like every kind of music 'except country.'…
— Chuck Klosterman
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An honorable man would never abandon his friend in time of need, especially if they were in a foreign country.…
— Vincent de Paul
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You know, Miss Holly, you look very dramatic like that, backlit by the fire. Very attractive, if I may say…
— Eoin Colfer
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Watching Italians eat (especially men, I have to say) is a form of tourism the books don't tell you about.…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?
— Jean de la Bruyere
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