John Ralston Saul Quotes

The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.
John Ralston Saul

Job, Doubt, Rude

Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.
John Ralston Saul

God, Society, Hell

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

Democracy, After, Free

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

Nature, Freedom, Society

Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.
John Ralston Saul

Death, Nothing, Statement

A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption.
John Ralston Saul

Big, Mac, Communion

Anglo Saxons: To blame for everything.
John Ralston Saul

Everything, Blame, Anglo

Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy.
John Ralston Saul

Fighting, Economy, Useful

Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen.
John Ralston Saul

Democracy, Secret, Balance

Dictionary - opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order.
John Ralston Saul

Truth, Opinion, Order

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

Everyone has an equal right to inequality.
John Ralston Saul

Everyone, Equal, Inequality

Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day.
John Ralston Saul

Freedom, Space, Occupied

Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise.
John Ralston Saul

Before, Child, Born

Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value.
John Ralston Saul

Money, Real, Value

Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors.
John Ralston Saul

God, Forward, Said

Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.
John Ralston Saul

Naive, Anarchy, Metaphor

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Nationality: Canadian

Type: Author

Born: June 19, 1947

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