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John Ralston Saul [1947-0] Canadian
Rank: 109
Author, Philosopher


John Ralston Saul, CC OOnt is a Canadian award-winning philosopher, novelist and essayist. He is a long-term champion of freedom of expression and was the International President of PEN International, until October 2015.

Freedom, Society, God



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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.
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Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted. God, Society
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The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.
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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.
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Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society. Freedom, Society
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Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.
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Dictionary - opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order.
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A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption.
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Everyone has an equal right to inequality.
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You can always tell you're in deep trouble when people start thinking money's real.
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Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.
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Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value.
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Anglo Saxons: To blame for everything.
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Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy.
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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.
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Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day. Freedom
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Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors.
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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.
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