Quotes by John Ralston Saul

John Ralston Saul

A Big Mac – the communion wafer of consumption.

Bigs

Culture

Macs

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.

Civilization

Self

Tradition

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

May

Political

After a period in which technocrats attempted to become stars and stars to become politicians, the political void has been occupied by the force of mediocrity, which can easily master enough of the star techniques to produce inoffensive personalities and enough of the rational vocabulary to create the sounds of competence.

Personality

Stars

Vocabulary

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

Insulting

People

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.

Acceptance

Taught Us

Years

An individual who stands out, or disagrees or takes risks is a danger to such systems and is effortlessly and, unconsciously sidelined.

Learning

Risk

Teaching

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

Economy

Fighting

War

As an inclusive quality, imagination is thus our primary force for progress, whatever progress is.

Imagination

Progress

Quality

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

Bankers

If There Is A God

Political

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Absolutes

Acceptance

Accepting

Age

Agreement

Aim

Airplane

Anarchy

Army

Artistic

Asks

Bankers

Believe

Betrayal

Bigs

Bitterness

Bottom

Boys

Causes

Cheating

Children

Cities

Citizens

Civilization

Class

Common Sense

Communication

Competition

Conformity

Conscious

Contempt

Country

Creativity

Culture

Debate

Defined

Democracy

Depressing

Desire

Destiny

Differences

Disease

Distance

Doctors

Doe

Dogmatism

Doubt

Dream

Dresses

Economy

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Quotes by John Ralston Saul

John Ralston Saul

A Big Mac – the communion wafer of consumption.

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.

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.

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.

An individual who stands out, or disagrees or takes risks is a danger to such systems and is effortlessly and, unconsciously sidelined.

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

As an inclusive quality, imagination is thus our primary force for progress, whatever progress is.

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

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