Explore more quotes by John Ralston Saul

"Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value."

Money, Agreement, Value

"Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted."

Society, God, Hell

"Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy."

Economy, Fighting

"Anglo Saxons: To blame for everything."

Blame,

"Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society."

Nature, Society, Exercise, Freedom

"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."

Capitalism, Democracy, State, Will

"Either God is alive, in which case he'll deal with us as he sees fit. Or he is dead, in which case he was never alive, it being unlikely that he died of old age."

Age, God, Being, Old

"Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death."

Death, Nothing

"Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors."

God, Leaders, Risk

"The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt."

Comfort, Doubt, Job

Exlpore more Truth quotes

"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."

Mark Twain, American Author

Truth, Denial

"Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima."

Pablo Picasso, Spanish Artist

Truth, Genius, Negative, Positive, Value

"What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice."

Ronald Reagan, American President

Truth, People, Choice, Country, Now

"Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

Truth, Society, Lie, Inferiority

"Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

Truth, Falsehood, Light, Twilight

"There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time.""

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

Truth, Time, Daughter, Name, Now

"When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people."

Mark Twain, American Author

Truth, People, Being

"A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better."

Stephen Leacock, Canadian Economist

Truth, Argument

"We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral."

Epictetus, Greek Philosopher

Truth, Lies, Lying

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

Truth, Men, Nothing