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Everyone has an equal right to inequality.
- John Ralston Saul
#Equal
#Everyone
#Inequality
#Right
Dictionary - opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order.
- John Ralston Saul
#Dictionary
#Opinion
#Order
#Truth
Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.
- John Ralston Saul
#God
#He
#Hell
#Society
#Who
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
#Exercise
#Freedom
#Nature
#Need
#Society
A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption.
- John Ralston Saul
#Big
#Communion
#Consumption
#Mac
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
#Capitalism
#Democracy
#Free
#State
#Will
Languages and cultures are disappearing at an enormously fast rate, and many of them are in Canada. These are extreme examples of removal of freedom of expression - to actually lose a language and the ability to express that culture.
- John Ralston Saul
#Ability
#Culture
#Fast
#Freedom
#Lose
How can we possibly say the root of the Canadian approach to citizenship and immigration comes from Europe or the United States? I mean, we just don't do the same things. What I've said, very simply, is that unlike other colonies, for the first 250 years approximately, indigenous people were either the dominant force or an equal force.
- John Ralston Saul
#Citizenship
#Indigenous People
#People
The fighting back by indigenous people started in 1900: OK, they've cornered us. Our population is almost gone; they've defeated us. From there, the modern Indian rights movement started, and it was a very hard fight, with a lot of stuff going against them.
- John Ralston Saul
#Back
#Fight
#Fighting
#Indigenous People
If you live in a democracy, it's very tiring to be always surrounded by great and high abstract generalisations which are, in fact, the most banal and naive cliches dug out of second-rate movements of the late 19th century.
- John Ralston Saul
#Democracy
#Great
#Late
#Live
#Surrounded
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
#Balance
#Capable
#Democracy
#Key
#Secret
Traditionally in capitalism, when you have more cash, you can fund more activity, which produces more jobs and creates more wealth. That's basic economic theory.
- John Ralston Saul
#Activity
#Capitalism
#Cash
#More
#Wealth
The merger mania which goes on and on and on is the sign of the disappearance of competition. As we deregulate, the mergers increase, which means there's less and less competition. At the national level, at the regional level, but also at the international level.
- John Ralston Saul
#Competition
#Level
#Means
#Mergers
#Sign
In the Arctic, the Inuit are saying water and land are the same; they're an unbroken unity. In the winter, you travel on the ice because it's the linkage and the easiest way, and in the summer, you move around on the water.
- John Ralston Saul
#Land
#Travel
#Unity
#Water
#Way
You look around the world in 2013, and you say, 'How many prime ministers or presidents are in prison?' One or two. 'How many generals or bankers?' Two or three. 'But how many writers?' 850 or so.
- John Ralston Saul
#Look
#Prison
#Three
#Two
#World
Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value.
- John Ralston Saul
#Agreement
#Conscious
#Money
#Real
#Value
Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day.
- John Ralston Saul
#Day
#Every Day
#Every
#Freedom
#Must
#Space
Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.
- John Ralston Saul
#Death
#Exceptions
#Nothing
#Statement
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