Best quotes by John Ralston Saul on Democracy
Checkout quotes by John Ralston Saul on Democracy
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‟ If you live in a democracy, it's very tiring to be always surrounded by great and high abstract generalisations which are, in fact, the most banal and naive cliches dug out of second-rate movements of the late 19th century.
- John Ralston Saul
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‟ 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.
- John Ralston Saul
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‟ Democracy is extremely complex; it is extremely concrete. It's about constantly choosing, finding, developing practical options within the common good. Constantly searching for how to express in a practical way the common good, not in some grand way, some grand and absolute way, but in a very comfortable way.
- John Ralston Saul
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‟ Democracy, of course, requires strong demands from the public.
- John Ralston Saul
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‟ 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.
- John Ralston Saul