158 Quotes by John Ralston Saul

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

If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.

A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption.

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

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

You can always tell you're in deep trouble when people start thinking money's real.

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

Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise.

Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors.