Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society. -John Ralston Saul Society
In the Arctic, the Inuit are saying water and land are the same; they're an unbroken unity. In the winter, you travel on the ice because it's the linkage and the easiest way, and in the summer, you move around on the water. -John Ralston Saul Travel
People are always saying it's the end of the Gutenberg era. More to the point, it's a return to an oral era. The Gutenberg galaxy was about the written word. At its best, the digital era is part of the rediscovery of the oral. At its worst, it's a Kafkaesque victory of the bureaucratic over the imagination. -John Ralston Saul Imagination
Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted. -John Ralston Saul Society
Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society. -John Ralston Saul Freedom
People who believe in freedom of expression have spent several centuries fighting against censorship, in whatever form. We have to be certain the 'Net' doesn't become the site for technological book burning. -John Ralston Saul Freedom
