"The void in our society has been produced by the absence of values... we have no widespread belief in the value of participation. The rational system has made us fear standing out in any serious way."

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Source : John Ralston Saul (2013). “Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West”, p.584, Simon and Schuster

John Ralston Saul

#Vision Quotes #Way Quotes #Void Quotes

“Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.”
“Schemes are like fruit, they require a certain ripening.”
“Always you find that the more decisive event wins so my father's sort of annual decisiveness which came upon him on the Day of Atonement every year, he suddenly remembered that he was Jewish.”
“Britain has invented a new missile. It's called the civil servant - it doesn't work and it can't be fired.”
“The estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on inheritance after death - a tax on money that has already been taxed.”
“Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.”
“I'm focused now, definitely. I absolutely need to show everyone that I'm powerful and strong and can be graceful and artistic, too.”
“But, the relationships that I see work - As long as they're telling the truth, and saying the things that you don't ever want to have to say to another human being.”

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