John Ralston Saul Quotes

the marketplace is capable only of calculating exclusive costs; that is; excluding all possible cost...

Fashion is merely the lowest form of ideology. To wear or not to wear blue jeans, to holiday or not ...

Now listen to the first three aims of the corporatist movement in Germany, Italy and France during t...

In the West, of course, God has been dead for some time. What remains is religion as social belief, ...

Our essential difficulty is that we are seeking in a mechanism, which is necessary, qualities it sim...

They (the novelists) became the voice of the citizen against the ubiquitous raison d'état, which rea...

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong...

technologies come and go. Economic structures evolve and change. Society adjusts. But democratic bas...

If you cannot create, then buy a company that can. In particular, the large corporations buy small, ...

Rights are a protection from society. But only by fulfilling their obligations to society can the in...

Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been ...

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

In the Arctic, the Inuit are saying water and land are the same; they're an unbroken unity. In the w...

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

As with our earlier worship of saints and facts, there is something silly about grown men and women ...

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

People who believe in freedom of expression have spent several centuries fighting against censorship...

Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part o...

People are always saying it's the end of the Gutenberg era. More to the point, it's a return to an o...