Quotes by John Ralston Saul

The most powerful force possessed by the individual citizen is her own government. ... Government is the only organized mechanism that makes possible that level of shared disinterest known as the public good.
– John Ralston Saul
Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.
– John Ralston Saul
Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.
– John Ralston Saul
Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day.
– John Ralston Saul
Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.
– John Ralston Saul