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We have put together a list of some of the best Quotes that Written by John Ralston Saul
John Ralston Saul
Total Quotes 85
Unregulated Competition Is A Naive Metaphor For Anarchy.
Competition
Anarchy
Metaphor
After All, In Both Languages We Were Dealing In Large Measure Not With English And French, But With Scots And Irish, Bretons And Normans ... There Could Be No More Eloquent Illustration Of The Colonial Mind-set Than A Bunch Of Celts And Vikings In A Distant Northern Territory Insulting Each Other As Les Anglais And The French As If They Were The Descendants Of The People Who Had Subjected And Ruined Them.
Illustration
People
Insulting
If The Technocratic Class Often Invokes Technology, It Is Because These Inanimate Objects Can Take On A Trajectory Of Their Own And So Cover For The Manager's Inability To Give Leadership.
Technology
Class
Giving
A Big Mac - The Communion Wafer Of Consumption.
Culture
Bigs
Macs
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.
Children
Years
Promise
Nothing Is Absolute, With The Debatable Exceptions Of This Statement And Death.
Exception
Absolutes
Statements
Armaments; Extremely Useful For Fighting Wars, A Deadweight In Any Civil Economy.
War
Fighting
Economy
Management Cannot Solve Problems. Nor Can It Stir Creativity Of Any Sort. It Can Only Manage What It Is Given. If Asked To Do More, It Will Deform Whatever Is Put Into Its Hands.
Creativity
Hands
Management
Of Course, Corporations And Governments Have A Right To Something For Their Money. They Pay The Wages. But They Don't Have The Ethical Right To Literally Purchase The Copyright Of A Citizen's Potential Contribution To Society. In A Democracy They Should Not Have The Legal Right To Silence The Quasi-totality Of The Functioning élite In Order To Satisfy A Managerial Taste For Control And Secrecy.
Order
Government
Silence
Bankers - Pillars Of Society Who Are Going To Hell If There Is A God And He Has Been Accurately Quoted.
If There Is A God
Political
Bankers
Myrmecophaga Jubata: The Anteater. The Existence Of This Predator Demonstrates That Thinking 71 Percent Of The Time, As Ants Do, Won't Prevent You From Being Eaten. Thinking Less Than That, As Humans Do, Will Almost Guarantee It.
Thinking
Guarantees
Predator
Dictionary: Opinion Presented As Truth In Alphabetical Order.
Teacher
Teaching
Order
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.
Giving Up
Sacrifice
Democracy
We Must Discover How To Ask Simple Questions Of Ourselves.
Simple
Asks
Happy Hour: A Depressing Comment On The Rest Of The Day And A Victory For The Most Limited Dionysian View Of Human Nature.
Happiness
Depressing
Views
A Foreigner Is An Individual Who Is Considered Either Comic Or Sinister. When The Victim Of A Disaster - Preferably Natural But Sometimes Political -the Foreigner May Also Be Pitied From A Distance For A Short Period Of Time.
Distance
Political
May
Freedom - An Occupied Space Which Must Be Reoccupied Every Day.
Space
It Is The Considered Opinion Of Most Members Of Our Rational élites That, In Any Given Difference Of Opinion With Reality, Reality Is Wrong.
Reality
Differences
Opinion
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.
Destiny
Political
Intellectual
Obviously We Don't Have 300 Million People. We Haven't Got A Big Army. We Don't Have Hollywood. We're A Medium Small-sized Country. We Have To Do What Medium Small-sized Countries Do, Which-even Though We're Not Smarter Than Other People-is To Make Ourselves Seem To Be Smarter. We Have To Work Harder And Know More Than Other People.
Country
Hard Work
Army
Freud, Sigmund: A Man So Dissatisfied With His Own Mother And Father That He Devoted His Life To Convincing Everyone Who Would Listen — Or Better Still, Talk — That Their Parents Were Just As Bad.
Mother
Father
Men
A Commercial Civilization Is Money-oriented, Profit-oriented. Commercial Values Always Tend To Wrench A Society Free Of Tradition.economics From Education To Public Service Is Being Reorganized On The Self-destructive Basis Of Self-interest.
Self
Civilization
Tradition
Faith: The Opposite Of Dogmatism.
Opposites
Dogmatism
Canada Is Either An Idea Or It Does Not Exist. It Is Either An Intellectual Undertaking Or It Is Little More Than A Resource-rich Vacuum Lying In The Buffer Zone Just North Of A Great Empire.
Lying
Ideas
Intellectual
Born: June 19, 1947
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