The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.

- John Ralston Saul

Ten geographers who think the world is flat will tend to reinforce each other's errors ... Only a sailor can set them straight.

- John Ralston Saul

People cannot do what they cannot think, and they cannot think what they cannot say.

- John Ralston Saul

Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals as the citi…

- John Ralston Saul

The acceptance of corporatism causes us to deny and undermine the legitimacy of the individual as citizen in a democracy. The result of such a denial…

- John Ralston Saul

Pessimism: A valuable protection against quackery.

- John Ralston Saul

All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the acceptance of diffe…

- John Ralston Saul

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…

- John Ralston Saul

Which is ideology? Which not? You shall know them by their assertion of truth, their contempt for considered reflection, and their fear of debate.

- John Ralston Saul