25 ordspråk av John Ralston Saul
John Ralston Saul
 [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. |
| A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption |
| Anglo Saxons: To blame for everything. |
| Armaments: Extremely useful for fighting wars. A deadweight in any civil economy. |
| Bankers: Pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted. |
| But 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. |
| 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. |
| Dictionary: Opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Everyone has an equal right to inequality. |
| Freedom: An occupied space which must be reoccupied every day. |
| 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? |
| Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society |
| I hope I don't run any of you over. |
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