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

Topics: Citizenship Quotes

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

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

A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption.

A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption.

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...

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

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

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...

Dictionary - opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order.

Dictionary - opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order.

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....

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...

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...

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

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

Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.

Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.

A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption

A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption

Everyone has an equal right to inequality.

Everyone has an equal right to inequality.

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...

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...

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.

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

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