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"When you write by hand, you don't have the excessive freedom of a computer. When I write down something, I have to be serious about it. I have to ask myself, "Is this necessary at this point in the book?"
"You can be your own boss."
"The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it."
"According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it."
Explore more quotes by John Ralston Saul
"Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted."
"The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt."
"Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society."
"Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen."
"Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors."
"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."
"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."
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