John Ralston Saul Quotes

The state-initiated referendum has always been a part of this anti-democratic logic. Stop the talk, we're going to decide, yes or no. At this point the citizen's role is to wave one flag or the other and cheer for one side of the simple question or the other. In other words, we're reduced to children.

John Ralston Saul

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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

Rabindranath Tagore
- Truth
- Hand
- Grip
TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.

Gail Porter
- World
- Done
- Job
Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.

Ma Jian
I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.

Mallory Ortberg
- Women
- She
- Fun
Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.

Vicki Baum
- Feeling
- Woman
- Pity
The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.

Kara Swisher
- Women
- Management
- Forward