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John Ralston Saul Quotes

«[The founding fathers, said John Ralston Saul, a Canadian political philosopher, defined happiness as a balance of individual and community interests.] The Enlightenment theory of happiness was an expression of public good or the public welfare, of the contentment of the people, ... the 20th-century idea that you should smile because you're at Disneyland.»
«He's driving, ... I am going to the Ontario Automobile Association to take some classes next week, because whenever I look at the 401 now I think, can I do it?»
«Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors.»
«Doubt is thus the space between reality and the application of an idea. It ought to be given over to the weighing of experience, intuition, creativity, ethics, common sense, reason and, of course, knowledge, in balanced consideration of what is to be done. The longer this stage lasts the more we take advantage of our intelligence.»
«Dictionary: Opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order.»
«Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value.»
«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.»
«Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.»
«Everyone has an equal right to inequality.»
«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.»
Author: John Ralston Saul | About: God

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