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

Quote by John Ralston Saul

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If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and...

If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and...

Either God is alive, in which case he'll deal with us as he sees fit....

Either God is alive, in which case he'll deal with us as he sees fit....

Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy.

Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy.

Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day.

Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day.

Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value.

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....

Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance....

Anglo Saxons: To blame for everything.

Anglo Saxons: To blame for everything.

Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised...

Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised...

Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.

Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.

Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.

Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.

Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God...

Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God...

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

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

Everyone has an equal right to inequality.

Everyone has an equal right to inequality.

Dictionary - opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order.

Dictionary - opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order.

A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption

A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption

Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk...

Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk...

Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as...

Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as...

Humanity is a Virtue all preach, none practice, and yet every body is content to...

Humanity is a Virtue all preach, none practice, and yet every body is content to...

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider...

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider...

People ask me all the time, 'What are you, a Democrat or a Republican? A...

People ask me all the time, 'What are you, a Democrat or a Republican? A...