List of John Ralston Saul Quotes

Unregulated Competition Is A Naive Metaphor For Anarchy.

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.

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.

A Big Mac - The Communion Wafer Of Consumption.

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.

Nothing Is Absolute, With The Debatable Exceptions Of This Statement And Death.

Armaments; Extremely Useful For Fighting Wars, A Deadweight In Any Civil 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.

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.

Bankers - Pillars Of Society Who Are Going To Hell If There Is A God And He Has Been Accurately Quoted.

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.

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