John Ralston Saul Quotes
"Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy."
- John Ralston Saul
(Related: Anarchy, Competition, Metaphor)
"Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors."
- John Ralston Saul
(Related: God, Leaders, Risk)
"Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death."
- John Ralston Saul
(Related: Death, Nothing)
"Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day."
- John Ralston Saul
(Related: Day, Freedom, Space)
"Everyone has an equal right to inequality."
- John Ralston Saul
(Related: Inequality, Right)
"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
(Related: Age, God, Being, Old)
"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
(Related: Balance, Democracy, Key)
"Dictionary - opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order."
- John Ralston Saul
(Related: Truth, Opinion, Order)
"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
(Related: Capitalism, Democracy, State, Will)
"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
(Related: Nature, Society, Exercise, Freedom)
"A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption."
- John Ralston Saul
"Anglo Saxons: To blame for everything."
- John Ralston Saul
(Related: Blame)
"Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy."
- John Ralston Saul
(Related: Economy, Fighting)
"Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted."
- John Ralston Saul
(Related: Society, God, Hell)
"Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value."
- John Ralston Saul
(Related: Money, Agreement, Value)
"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
(Related: Disney, Paradise, Promise, Years)