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Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day (John Ralston Saul Quotes)
A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption (John Ralston Saul Quotes)
Dictionary - opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order (John Ralston Saul Quotes)
There is no need to search for global solutions, apart from an absolute necessity to destroy the idea that such things exist (John Ralston Saul Quotes)
Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value (John Ralston Saul Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors (John Ralston Saul Quotes)
Happy Hour: a depressing comment on the rest of the day and a victory for the most limited Dionysian view of human nature (John Ralston Saul Quotes)
Like all religions, Reason presents itself as the solution to the problems it has created (John Ralston Saul Quotes)
Elites quite naturally define as the most important and admired qualities for a citizen those on which they themselves have concentrated (John Ralston Saul Quotes)
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 Quotes)
It is undoubtedly easier to believe in absolutes, follow blindly, mouth received wisdom. But that is self-betrayal (John Ralston Saul Quotes)
In the humanist ideal, the mainstream is where interesting debate, the generating of new ideas and creativity take place. In rational society this mainstream is considered uncontrollable and is therefore made marginal. The centre ground is occupied instead by structures and courtiers (John Ralston Saul Quotes)
The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument the planet is put in its place. Only the bravest or the most foolish of individuals would not become passive before such awe inspiring destinies (John Ralston Saul Quotes)
We all need a bit of self-delusion. It gets us over the difficult spots (John Ralston Saul Quotes)
United States:. A nation given either to unjustified over-enthusiasms or infantile furies (John Ralston Saul Quotes)
Moral crusade: Public activity undertaken by middle-aged men who are cheating on their wives or diddling little boys. Moral crusades are particularly popular among those seeking power for their own personal pleasure, politicians who can’t think of anything useful to do with their mandates, and religious professionals suffering from a personal inability to communicate with their God (John Ralston Saul Quotes)
Happy Hour: a depressing comment on the rest of the day and a victory for the most limited Dionysian view of human nature. (John Ralston Saul Quotes)
You can always tell you’re in deep trouble when people start thinking money’s real (John Ralston Saul Quotes)
It is the considered opinion of most members of our rational élites that, in any given difference of opinion with reality, reality is wrong. (John Ralston Saul Quotes)
Pessimism: A valuable protection against quackery (John Ralston Saul Quotes)
Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order (John Ralston Saul Quotes)
We must discover how to ask simple questions of ourselves (John Ralston Saul Quotes)
If economists were doctors, they would today be mired in malpractice suits (John Ralston Saul Quotes)
Faith: The opposite of dogmatism (John Ralston Saul Quotes)
Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death (John Ralston Saul Quotes)
Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy (John Ralston Saul Quotes)
Everyone has an equal right to inequality (John Ralston Saul Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Governments produced by the most banal of electoral victories, like those produced by the crudest of coups d’état, will always feel obliged to dress themselves up linguistically in some way (John Ralston Saul Quotes)
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