John Ralston Saul Quotes
In all earlier civilizations, it should be remembered, commerce was treated as a narrow activity and by no means the senior sector in society.
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The intelligence community really is a vast bureaucratic entity, and it has been politicized in ways that are not effective for the gathering of intelligence and giving it to senior policymakers.
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These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.
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What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.
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I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change.
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
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My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.
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None can be more negative in its impact than the limitation on human resource capacity.
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Because the world is in economic recession, which worsened since this drama happened, and our country will bear the burden of all of these consequences.
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The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.
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PepsiCo did not have a woman in the senior ranks, nor a foreign-born person who was willing to think differently.
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There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't know what kind of performances his music gets. He wrote symphonic music and some chorale music.
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Orwell wasn't right about where society was in 1984. We haven't turned into that sort of surveillance society. But that may be, at least in small part, because of his book. The notion that ubiquitous surveillance and state manipulation of the media is evil is deeply engrained in us.
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Email is a senior citizen. It's been around since at least the 1960s in one form or another. In the 1990s and early 2000s, there was a hot competition among consumer email services like Yahoo Mail, Hotmail and Gmail.
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Conservatives sometimes forget that limiting government is not an end in itself but a means to a better society.
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Again, as a gay man I look at that and say there's a hopelessness that surrounds it, but as a human being I look at it and say 'Why? Where's this disparity coming from, and why can't we as a culture and society dig deeper to examine that?' We're terrified of facing ourselves.
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To embrace Hindutva is to embrace an obscurantist, backward looking, divisive ideology that seeks to polarise society through identity politics.
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Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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There should be characters and situations that we cannot identify with, that retain either too much horror or too much wonder to allow for simple identification. That feels to me like an accurate depiction of what it is like to be in the world, rather than a neutered register of continual empathy.
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I believe you are never past the point of creating opportunities for yourself.
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We cannot have government for all the people until we first make certain it is government of and by all the people.
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In all earlier civilizations, it should be remembered, commerce was treated as a narrow activity and by no means the senior sector in society.
