Citas de John Ralston Saul

• Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.

  John Ralston Saul

  Government, Tone, Morality

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Unconscious Civilization”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• Nuestra civilización está presa de una ideología: el corporativismo. Una ideología que niega y socava la legitimidad del individuo como ciudadano en una democracia. El desequilibrio particular de esta ideología conduce a un culto del interés propio y a una negación del bien público. Los efectos prácticos sobre el individuo son la pasividad y el conformismo en las áreas que importan, y el inconformismo en las áreas que no importan.

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  Self, Civilization, Democracy

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Unconscious Civilization”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• People cannot do what they cannot think, and they cannot think what they cannot say.

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  Pensamiento, Personas

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• The acceptance of corporatism causes us to deny and undermine the legitimacy of the individual as citizen in a democracy. The result of such a denial is a growing imbalance which leads to our adoration of self-interest and our denial of the public good.

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  Acceptance, Self, Democracy

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Unconscious Civilization”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• El trabajo del ciudadano es ser grosero, perforar la comodidad del trato profesional con expresiones groseras de duda.

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  Jobs, Expression, Rude

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

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• 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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  Vision, Our Society, Way

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

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• Pessimism: A valuable protection against quackery.

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  Protection, Pessimism, Valuable

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

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• All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the acceptance of differences, not the search for similarities which enables people to relate to each other in their personal or family lives.

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  Acceptance, Years, Taught Us

  John Ralston Saul (1997). “Reflections of a Siamese twin: Canada at the end of the twentieth century”, Viking Adult

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• Ten geographers who think the world is flat will tend to reinforce each other's errors ... Only a sailor can set them straight.

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  Thinking, Errors, World

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “Voltaire's Bastards”, p.476, Simon and Schuster

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• The best defence [for a democracy, for the public good] is aggressiveness, the aggressiveness of the involved citizen. We need to reassert that slow, time-consuming, inefficient, boring process that requires our involvement; it is called 'being a citizen.' The public good is not something that you can see. It is not static. It is a process. It is the process by which democratic civilizations build themselves.

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  Civilization, Democracy, Needs

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• Escuche ahora los tres primeros objetivos del movimiento corporativista en Alemania, Italia y Francia durante la década de 1920. Estos objetivos fueron desarrollados por las personas que más tarde se convertirían en parte de la experiencia fascista: (1) transferir el poder directamente a los grupos de interés económico y social; (2) impulsar la iniciativa empresarial en áreas normalmente reservadas a los organismos públicos; (3) eliminar los límites entre el interés público y el privado, es decir, cuestionar la idea del interés público. Esto suena como el programa oficial de la mayoría de los gobiernos occidentales contemporáneos.

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  Ideas, Government, People

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Unconscious Civilization”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• Which is ideology? Which not? You shall know them by their assertion of truth, their contempt for considered reflection, and their fear of debate.

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  Reflection, Debate, Contempt

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• Capitalism was reasonably content under Hitler, happy under Mussolini, very happy under Franco and delirious under General Pinochet.

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  Pinochet, Very Happy, Franco

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• Wordsmiths who serve established power...castrate the public imagination by subjecting language to a complexity which renders it private. Elitism is always their aim.

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  Imagination, Language, Aim

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• We have more than two options. A critique of reason does not have to be a call for the return of superstition and arbitrary power. Our problems do not lie with reason itself but with our obsessive treatment of reason as an absolute value. Certainly it is one of our qualities, but it functions positively only when balanced and limited by the others.

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  Lying, Two, Quality

  "The Doubter's Companion". Book by John Ralston Saul, 1994.

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• An individual who stands out, or disagrees or takes risks is a danger to such systems and is effortlessly and, unconsciously sidelined.

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  Teaching, Learning, Risk

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• Si los economistas fueran médicos, hoy estarían sumidos en juicios por mala praxis.

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  Money, Doctors, Today

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Unconscious Civilization”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Like all religions, Reason presents itself as the solution to the problems it has created

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  Inspirational, Problem, Reason

  John Ralston Saul (2013). “Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• Todo el mundo tiene el mismo derecho a la desigualdad.

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  Inequality, Equal

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• The undoubted sign of a society well under control or in decline is that language has ceased to be a means of communication and has become instead a shield for those who master it.

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  Communication, Mean, Shields

  John Ralston Saul (2013). “Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Panic: A highly underrated capacity thanks to which individuals are able to indicate clearly that something is wrong. Given their head, most humans panic with great dignity and imagination. This can be called democratic expression or practical common sense.

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  Expression, Common Sense, Imagination

  John Ralston Saul (2002). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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• Familia feliz: Se cree que la existencia y el mantenimiento de [esto] hace que un político sea apto para un cargo público. Según esta teoría, el público está menos preocupado por si está o no representado de forma efectiva que por la necesidad de asegurarse de que los penes y las vaginas de los funcionarios públicos sólo se utilizan en circunstancias legalmente sancionadas.

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  Office, Needs, Maintenance

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• It is undoubtedly easier to believe in absolutes, follow blindly, mouth received wisdom. But that is self-betrayal.

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  Betrayal, Believe, Self

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• United States:. A nation given either to unjustified over-enthusiasms or infantile furies.

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  United States, Enthusiasm, Given

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.299, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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  Keys, House, Secret

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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