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John Ralston Saul quotes

Canadian Author June 19, 1947

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In general, democracy and individualism have advanced in spite of and often against specific economic interest. Both democracy and individualism have been based upon financial sacrifice, not gain. Even in Athens, a large part of the 7,000 citizens who participated regularly in assemblies were farmers who had to give up several days' work to go into town to talk and listen. John Ralston Saul
All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the acceptance of differences, not the search for similarities which enables people to relate to each other in their personal or family lives. John Ralston Saul
John Ralston Saul quote: "Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our..."
Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society. John Ralston Saul
If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state. John Ralston Saul
John Ralston Saul quote: "I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve..."
I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good statistics. John Ralston Saul
Either God is alive, in which case he'll deal with us as he sees fit. Or he is dead, in which case he was never alive, it being unlikely that he died of old age. John Ralston Saul
Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors. John Ralston Saul
John Ralston Saul quote: "Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is..."
Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted. John Ralston Saul
Now listen to the first three aims of the corporatist movement in Germany, Italy and France during the 1920s. These were developed by the people who went on to become part of the Fascist experience:(1) shift power directly to economic and social interest groups;(2) push entrepreneurial initiative in areas normally reserved for public bodies;(3) obliterate the boundaries between public and private interest -- that is, challenge the idea of the public interest. This sounds like the official... John Ralston Saul
John Ralston Saul quote: "Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this..."
Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death. John Ralston Saul
The neo-conservatives, who are closely linked to the neo-corportists, are rather different. They claim to be conservatives, when everything they stand for is a rejection of conservatism. They claim to present an alternate social model, when they are little more than the courtiers of the corporatist movement. Their agitation is filled with the bitterness and cynicism typical of courtiers who scramble for crumbs at the banquet tables of real power, but are always denied a proper chair. John Ralston Saul
John Ralston Saul quote: "Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring..."
Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value. John Ralston Saul
John Ralston Saul quote: "Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day."
Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day. John Ralston Saul
John Ralston Saul quote: "The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of..."
The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt. John Ralston Saul
John Ralston Saul quote: "Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in..."
Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy. John Ralston Saul

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