John Ralston Saul quote: "I don't use the word 'renaissance'. It's flawed because in Latin, it's tied to the rebirth of Christ... It's a word that's tied to a European concept."

People who believe in freedom of expression have spent several centuries fighting against censorship...
JOHN RALSTON SAUL

One of the things non-aboriginal Canadians learned from aboriginal people over the last 400 years is...
JOHN RALSTON SAUL

The most powerful force possessed by the individual citizen is her own government. ... Government is...
JOHN RALSTON SAUL

Not only is the Napoleonic dream stronger today in our imaginations than it has ever been, but one c...
JOHN RALSTON SAUL

Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quot...
JOHN RALSTON SAUL

Dictionary - opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order.
JOHN RALSTON SAUL

Canada is the only country in the West that hasn't given in to the rhetoric of fear. The dominan...
JOHN RALSTON SAUL

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

In the European tradition, rivers are seen as divisions between peoples. But in the Aboriginal tradi...
JOHN RALSTON SAUL

If you live in a democracy, it's very tiring to be always surrounded by great and high abstract ...
JOHN RALSTON SAUL

In the Arctic, the Inuit are saying water and land are the same; they're an unbroken unity. In t...
JOHN RALSTON SAUL

How can we possibly say the root of the Canadian approach to citizenship and immigration comes from ...
JOHN RALSTON SAUL

A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption.
JOHN RALSTON SAUL

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

The merger mania which goes on and on and on is the sign of the disappearance of competition. As we ...
JOHN RALSTON SAUL

Keynesianism, if you add its flexible, muscular form during the Depression to its more rigid postwar...
JOHN RALSTON SAUL

Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. T...
JOHN RALSTON SAUL

Everyone has an equal right to inequality.
JOHN RALSTON SAUL

Anglo Saxons: To blame for everything.
JOHN RALSTON SAUL

The wild open-market theory that died in 1929 had a run of just over thirty years. Communism, a comp...
JOHN RALSTON SAUL

Some people don't like the 'comeback' because that suggests they went somewhere, which t...
JOHN RALSTON SAUL

Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part o...
JOHN RALSTON SAUL

The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish e...
JOHN RALSTON SAUL

The fighting back by indigenous people started in 1900: OK, they've cornered us. Our population ...
JOHN RALSTON SAUL

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

I've been up in the Arctic Circle where they have hockey rinks that don't have any heating. ...
JOHN RALSTON SAUL

People are always saying it's the end of the Gutenberg era. More to the point, it's a return...
JOHN RALSTON SAUL

If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democr...
JOHN RALSTON SAUL

Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themse...
JOHN RALSTON SAUL

The 19th-century pure capitalist model of society was a pyramid, concentrations of enormous wealth i...
JOHN RALSTON SAUL

You look around the world in 2013, and you say, 'How many prime ministers or presidents are in p...
JOHN RALSTON SAUL

Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.
JOHN RALSTON SAUL

The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expre...
JOHN RALSTON SAUL

In the early 1980s, the government of New Zealand fell into the hands of true believers, globalist b...
JOHN RALSTON SAUL

The neo-conservatives, who are closely linked to the neo-corporatists, are rather different. They cl...
JOHN RALSTON SAUL

For about 125 years, give or take, the Canadian government has acted extremely badly - even in a way...
JOHN RALSTON SAUL

The evolution from the $1 category to the $2 category might mean a marginal improvement or nothing a...
JOHN RALSTON SAUL

Either God is alive, in which case he'll deal with us as he sees fit. Or he is dead, in which ca...
JOHN RALSTON SAUL

When I dig around in the roots of how we imagine ourselves, how we govern, how we live together in c...
JOHN RALSTON SAUL

There's two ways of dealing with fears of mortality. One of them is to hide, so every day you we...
JOHN RALSTON SAUL

I'd fallen in love with a woman but she broke up with me and I was devastated. Six months later,...
ARON RALSTON

I limited myself to one shout a day. But I didn't like the sound of my voice. It sounded panicke...
ARON RALSTON

What you're looking at there is my arm, going into the rock... and there it is - stuck. It's been wi...
ARON RALSTON

Judging by my degradation in the last 24 hours, I'll be surprised if I make it to Tuesday.
ARON RALSTON

Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love y...
ARON RALSTON

Unless it was a fatal accident, which it doesn't sound like, psychologically it comes down to eating...
ARON RALSTON

[One has to stay calm and] you have to be able to look at this as you're treating someone else and l...
ARON RALSTON

We're proud of him because of the person he is and because he feels so strongly that he has a story ...
ARON RALSTON

What I'm doing right here tonight is raise money and give those kids a second chance.
ARON RALSTON

I think it's out there and it's not something that I treat lightly, ... At the same time, I realized...
ARON RALSTON

big tall, tasty, crushed-ice margarita.
ARON RALSTON

It's saved lives from depression. It's saved lives from boredom. People tell me they quit their jobs...
ARON RALSTON

I was accustomed to being in far, far riskier environments. So I thought going into that canyon was ...
ARON RALSTON

We've been really fortunate to have people in our community donate nice things and resources to our ...
BOB RALSTON

I only made one birdie all day.
BOB RALSTON

We knew we couldn't afford to mess up at all. I felt like if everybody did what they were supposed t...
BOB RALSTON

I couldn't believe it. I walked out and we were missing one whole cage. It was very disheartening. I...
BOB RALSTON

I knew it was going to be that close. Anything at all either way could have given it to the other on...
BOB RALSTON

This was a great group of girls and we will really miss our seven seniors.
CATHY RALSTON

I don't think it was the press that was hurting us too much. We got the ball down the court with ver...
CATHY RALSTON

That 3-point foul at the end of the third quarter put the nail in us.
CATHY RALSTON

The kids played great defense. That wasn't the problem.
CATHY RALSTON

We just couldn't shoot the ball. We were 14 of 54 from the field or something close to that horrendo...
CATHY RALSTON

I think it's out there and it's not something that I treat lightly,
ARON RALSTON

That was what got me through. I was able to improvise with what I had.
ARON RALSTON

I think my spirituality is very similar to what it was before. It wasn't as if I went through some k...
ARON RALSTON

For five years I had a phenomenally successful career, but I was bored.
ARON RALSTON

It really was a miracle that things just worked and fell into place, ... I feel like there was a rea...
ARON RALSTON

I'd taken the knife, and I'd etched into the wall the four letters of my name. Just to identify who ...
ARON RALSTON

I thought I was going to die.
ARON RALSTON

My name is Aron Ralston. My parents are Donna and Larry Ralston of Englewood, Co. Whoever finds this...
ARON RALSTON

At this point, I've got the confidence to know that I'll get through anything in my life given I hav...
ARON RALSTON

Merlyn has demonstrated his ability to lead the agency over the past six months and has expressed hi...
DAVE RALSTON

It's me. I chose this. I chose all of this — this rock has been waiting for me my entire life. I�...
ARON RALSTON

The program is for first-time home buyers in the Chester Street target area.
DAVE RALSTON

We're proud of him because of the person he is and because he feels so strongly that he has a story ...
DONNA RALSTON

It really was a miracle that things just worked and fell into place. I feel like there was a reason ...
DONNA RALSTON

These organizations will help build a new house and provide home-buyer assistance.
DAVE RALSTON

I don't like anything that interferes with the existing church or Carter property flat out. to me, w...
DAVE RALSTON

Here we are paying health care for a doctor. It strikes me as odd.
DAVE RALSTON

We feel like we are really getting ahead of the curve with this.
GEOFF RALSTON

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black f...
SAUL ALINSKY

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
SAUL BELLOW

Every other man spoke a language entirely his own, which he had figured out by private thinking; he ...
SAUL BELLOW

By 1917, thanks to the new munitions factories and the women that worked in them, the British Empire...
SAUL DAVID

We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when...
SAUL ALINSKY

Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara - are as germane to our highly technological, computerized ...
SAUL ALINSKY

Last guys don't finish nice.
SAUL ALINSKY

Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have
SAUL ALINSKY

Always remember the first rule of power tactics: Power is not only what you have but what the enemy ...
SAUL ALINSKY

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your r...
SAUL ALINSKY

Jay Z and President Bush have a lot in common, that same brash confidence.
SAUL WILLIAMS

It is a tough choice between ending up in the cold or ending up in a fiery blast.
SAUL PERLMUTTER

We cannot continually barricade ourselves under some falsified idea of race, because our idea of bla...
SAUL WILLIAMS

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
SAUL BELLOW

Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting...
SAUL WILLIAMS

In here, the human bosom -- mine, yours, everybody's -- there isn't just one soul. There's a lot of ...
SAUL BELLOW

He believed that he must, that he could and would recover the good things, the happy things, the eas...
SAUL BELLOW

Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative...
SAUL LANDAU

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
SAUL BELLOW

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of...
SAUL STEINBERG

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
SAUL ALINSKY

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for ins...
SAUL BELLOW

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.
SAUL ALINSKY

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hol...
SAUL BELLOW

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
SAUL BELLOW

Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara... are as germane to our highly technological, computerized...
SAUL ALINSKY

Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you ar...
SAUL BELLOW

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abs...
SAUL ALINSKY

The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in Am...
SAUL BELLOW

As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if ...
SAUL BELLOW

Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately...
SAUL BELLOW

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father ...
SAUL ALINSKY

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argum...
SAUL BELLOW

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and a multitude of false ones that make up most ...
SAUL BELLOW

Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara... are as germane to our highly technological, computerize...
SAUL ALINSKY

Patrick Henry railed against taxation without representation. He should see it with representation.
SAUL LANDAU

Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.
SAUL BELLOW

There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It h...
SAUL BELLOW

Historians turning their hands to fiction are all the rage. Since Alison Weir led the way in 2006, a...
SAUL DAVID

It is surely no coincidence that Napoleon's two greatest heroes were Alexander the Great and Jul...
SAUL DAVID

Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward...
SAUL ALINSKY

Sometimes I'm amazed by how much you can do as a photographer.
SAUL LEITER

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative cen...
SAUL BELLOW

I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.
SAUL WILLIAMS

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
SAUL BELLOW

Radicals must be resilient, adaptable to shifting political circumstances, and sensitive enough to t...
SAUL ALINSKY

The only reason I've been so critical of hip-hop is because I've always been aware of the ef...
SAUL WILLIAMS

Ever since World War I, superior force is no longer measured in terms of men or horses, but in the m...
SAUL DAVID

She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand.
SAUL BELLOW

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
SAUL BELLOW

A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphin...
SAUL STEINBERG

What makes anyone think that I'm any good?
SAUL LEITER

I'm sometimes mystified by people who keep diaries. I never thought of my existence as being tha...
SAUL LEITER

My brothers were rabbis. My grandfather was a rabbi.
SAUL LEITER

I've never been overwhelmed with a desire to become famous. It's not that I didn't want ...
SAUL LEITER

I am not immersed in self-admiration.
SAUL LEITER

My father thought photography was done by lowlifes.
SAUL LEITER

I like the Zen artists: they'd do some work, and then they'd stop for a while.
SAUL LEITER

I like it when one is not certain what one sees. When we do not know why the photographer has taken ...
SAUL LEITER

I have been told that some of my photographs maybe indicate that I am a painter.
SAUL LEITER

When I am listening to Vivaldi or Japanese music or making spaghetti at 3 in the morning and realize...
SAUL LEITER

My family was very unhappy about my becoming a photographer - profoundly and deeply unhappy.
SAUL LEITER

Photography is about finding things. And painting is different - it's about making something.
SAUL LEITER

In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. ...
SAUL LEITER

There are the things that are out in the open, and there are the things that are hidden. The real wo...
SAUL LEITER

A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person.
SAUL LEITER

If the real radical finds that having long hair sets up psychological barriers to communication and ...
SAUL ALINSKY

The Capone gang was actually a public utility; it supplied what the people wanted and demanded.
SAUL ALINSKY

The MC that we love are usually the ones that we consider be kinda heartless, like 50 Cent. That'...
SAUL WILLIAMS

A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him.
SAUL BELLOW

For almost a century, the Universe has been known to be expanding as a consequence of the Big Bang a...
SAUL PERLMUTTER

My forebears were fantastically wealthy Armenians who came to England from India in the 19th century...
SAUL DAVID

I may be old-fashioned. But I believe there is such a thing as a search for beauty - a delight in th...
SAUL LEITER

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
SAUL BELLOW

You never know about the art world because it's a matter of opinion. If you look at old art like...
PETER SAUL

I celebrated success in the art world, which was quite sudden, and I suddenly had $1,000 a month, wh...
PETER SAUL

I enjoy finding a low subject and bringing it up high. I think with strong technique, you can glamor...
PETER SAUL

The job of the organizer is to maneuver and bait the establishment so that it will publicly attack h...
SAUL ALINSKY

Everybody owned stock in the Capone mob; in a way, he was a public benefactor. I remember one time w...
SAUL ALINSKY

I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the 'black people's CNN.' Well no...
SAUL WILLIAMS

I spent a great deal of my life being ignored. I was always very happy that way.
SAUL LEITER

Being ignored is a great privilege. That is how I think I learned to see what others do not see and ...
SAUL LEITER

To the organizer, compromise is a key and beautiful word. It is always present in the pragmatics of ...
SAUL ALINSKY

There were about 30 children at one stage, running around like savages at a place called Callow Hill...
SAUL DAVID

Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn...
SAUL BELLOW

With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - ...
SAUL BELLOW

In the early hours of 16 December 1944, the Germans launched their last great offensive of the Secon...
SAUL DAVID

The first Romanov ruler was just 16 when he was crowned Tsar Michael I in Moscow in 1613, thus endin...
SAUL DAVID

The organizer dedicated to changing the life of a particular community must first rub raw the resent...
SAUL ALINSKY

It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical t...
SAUL KRIPKE

My only fixed truth is a belief in people: a conviction that if people have the opportunity to act f...
SAUL ALINSKY

Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
SAUL BELLOW

Given the gruesome fate of the last Tsar, Nicholas II, and his family, and the fact that five of the...
SAUL DAVID

The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of ...
SAUL STEINBERG

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you h...
SAUL BELLOW

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argumen...
SAUL BELLOW

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me ...
SAUL BELLOW

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately...
SAUL BELLOW

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
SAUL BELLOW

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
SAUL BELLOW

The original project began because we know the universe is expanding. Everybody had assumed that gra...
SAUL PERLMUTTER

It's sweating the small stuff.
SAUL KLEIN

When I was growing up, nothing unpleasant was shown in the home. And when I was in art school, the o...
PETER SAUL

Conventional turbines only work up to 200 feet, but capturing a small fraction of the global wind en...
SAUL GRIFFITH

I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.
SAUL BELLOW

Our plans are to keep the colt, and of course we've already started dreaming. I guess that's why we'...
AL SAUL

Passion moves freely across borders, speaks every language, and flourishes in every culture. The mov...
SAUL ZAENTZ

I worked hard at my four-year M.A., but got a 2.1. That was a big disappointment, as I wanted to wri...
SAUL DAVID

Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators.
SAUL PERLMUTTER

First rule of change is controversy. You can't get away from it for the simple reason all issues...
SAUL ALINSKY

Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
SAUL ALINSKY

You are so much more exposed. With an acoustic instrument, so much is laid bare to the ear, and ther...
SAUL GROPMAN

We're excited because it's tripled what we thought it would do. It's 19,000 square feet, great fun. ...
AL SAUL

She had a colt by Western Hanover. He's gorgeous according to Bob Brady, who told me that for a firs...
AL SAUL

One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.
SAUL BELLOW

,Said Shotgun to the Head.
SAUL WILLIAMS

Some powerful magnificence not human in other words, seemed under me. And it was the same mild pink ...
SAUL BELLOW

I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and perfecting childhoo...
SAUL STEINBERG

I'm very excited about the resurgence of vinyl which seems to parallel a growing interest in liv...
SAUL WILLIAMS

I don't use the word 'renaissance'. It's flawed because in Latin, it's tied to the rebirth of Christ... It's a word that's tied to a European concept.

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