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John Ralston Saul
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Ottawa (Ontario)
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Like all religions, Reason presents itself as the solution to the problems it has created
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Pessimism: A valuable protection against quackery.
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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.
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Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.
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There is no need to search for global solutions, apart from an absolute necessity to destroy the idea that such things exist.
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Faith: The opposite of dogmatism.
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In a society of ideological believers, nothing is more ridiculous than the individual who doubts and does not conform.
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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.
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There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting.
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The void in our society has been produced by the absence of values... we have no widespread belief in the value of participation. The rational system has made us fear standing out in any serious way.
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An individual who stands out, or disagrees or takes risks is a danger to such systems and is effortlessly and, unconsciously sidelined.
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We have more than two options. A critique of reason does not have to be a call for the return of superstition and arbitrary power. Our problems do not lie with reason itself but with our obsessive treatment of reason as an absolute value. Certainly it is one of our qualities, but it functions positively only when balanced and limited by the others.
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In all earlier civilizations, it should be remembered, commerce was treated as a narrow activity and by no means the senior sector in society.
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Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day.
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If economists were doctors, they would today be mired in malpractice suits.
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Wordsmiths who serve established power...castrate the public imagination by subjecting language to a complexity which renders it private. Elitism is always their aim.
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The Age of Reason has turned out to be the Age of Structure a time when, in the absence of purpose, the drive for power as a value in itself has become the principal indicator of social approval. And the winning of power has become the measure of social merit.
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It is the considered opinion of most members of our rational élites that, in any given difference of opinion with reality, reality is wrong.
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People cannot do what they cannot think, and they cannot think what they cannot say.
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Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value.
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