Best quotes by John Ralston Saul on Democracy

Checkout quotes by John Ralston Saul on Democracy

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Democracy, of course, requires strong demands from the public.
    - John Ralston Saul
  • 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