John Ralston Saul

You can always tell you're in deep trouble when people start thinking money's real.

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

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.

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.

Communism can't survive the captivating allure of capitalism.

I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable.