John Ralston Saul Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• 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.

  John Ralston Saul

  Lying, Two, Quality

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

• 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.

  John Ralston Saul

  Vision, Our Society, Way

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

• A commercial civilization is money-oriented, profit-oriented. Commercial values always tend to wrench a society free of tradition.Economics from education to public service is being reorganized on the self-destructive basis of self-interest.

  John Ralston Saul

  Self, Civilization, Tradition

• The Age of Reason has turned out to be the Age of Structure; a time when, in the absence of purpose, the drive for power as a value in itself has become the principal indicator of social approval. And the winning of power has become the measure of social merit.

  John Ralston Saul

  Winning, Power, Age

  John Ralston Saul (2013). “Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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

  John Ralston Saul

  Real, Agreement, Conscious

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

• Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that the public has begun to believe the lack of clarity must be a sign of artistic talent.

  John Ralston Saul

  Believe, Simplicity, Artistic

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