Canadian - Author | June 19, 1947 -
One of the things non-aboriginal Canadians learned from aboriginal people over the last 400 years is you don't have to be one thing. That's a European idea. There's multiple personalities, multiple loyalties. You can be a Winnipegger, a Manitoban, a Westerner.
John Ralston Saul
PeopleYouOverYearsThingsLast
Certain governments are suggesting that bloggers and tweeters aren't 'real' writers and, so, don't merit protection. A writer is anyone from a Nobel laureate to a debut blogger. They all get PEN's attention.
AttentionPenRealProtectionGet
People are always saying it's the end of the Gutenberg era. More to the point, it's a return to an oral era. The Gutenberg galaxy was about the written word. At its best, the digital era is part of the rediscovery of the oral. At its worst, it's a Kafkaesque victory of the bureaucratic over the imagination.
BestImaginationPeopleVictoryEnd
Anglo Saxons: To blame for everything.
BlameEverything
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.
BalanceDemocracyKeyCitizenSecret
When I dig around in the roots of how we imagine ourselves, how we govern, how we live together in communities - how we treat one another when we are not being stupid - what I find is deeply Aboriginal.
LiveTogetherRootsStupidTreat
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.
ChildBornParadiseYearsFortunate
Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.
GodSocietyHellGoingBeenWho
Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day.
FreedomDaySpaceEvery DayMust
Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.
DeathNothingStatementExceptions
Dictionary - opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order.
TruthOpinionOrderDictionary
Everyone has an equal right to inequality.
InequalityRightEqualEveryone
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict John Ralston Saul quotes