Saul Quotes

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

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

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

Governments produced by the most banal of electoral victories, like those produced by the crudest of coups d'état, will always feel obliged to dress themselves up linguistically in some way.

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

Canada is either an idea or it does not exist. It is either an intellectual undertaking or it is little more than a resource-rich vacuum lying in the buffer zone just north of a great empire.

Faith: The opposite of dogmatism.

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

Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the spices, and the myrrh.

When I have the choice to do something I don't want to do, I most often – most always – do it anyway.

Better safe than sorry. That's my motto.

Make hay while the sun is still shining.

The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.

Democracy is alive, and like any other living thing it either flourishes and grows or withers and dies. There is no in-between. It is freedom and life or dictatorship and death.

It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral.

In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed.

It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people. In that event you are not even a failure. You're just not there.

The ninth rule of the ethics of means and ends is that any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical.

...there is no old age of the soul.

It's goodbye to reality when love sets in.

I love solitude, but I prize it most when plenty of company is available.

It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite.

Unfortunately for the betterment of mankind it is not always the fair-minded who are in the right.

For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no telling what may come of it.

There is much to be said for exotic marriages. If your husband is a bore, it takes years longer to discover.

Death deserves dignity.

It's not up to me ... to make the world consistent.

...is the carbon molecule lined with thought?

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.

There is simply too much to think about.

One of the booby traps of freedom - which is bordered on all sides by isolation - is that we think so well of ourselves. I now see that I have helped myself to the best cuts at life's banquet.

only through new words might new worlds be called into order

Vulnerability is power.

I think it's misleading to think that art is only there for escapism, only there for our dreams of being rich and f - king whoever we wanna f - k.

There's so much to be found in literature, especially if you don't have the money to travel or the means to get out of your neighborhood or get off work.

I can't say that I always want to get out of bed, you know.

I have a very family-like connection to hip-hop, which is why it frustrates me so much.

I was fed by the music I listened to as a kid. Hip-hop fed me psychologically, spiritually, politically. I learned from that music.

I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.

Much of the fear of doing something wrong vanishes when we are knowledgeable about what we are doing.

I wish there were easy answers to people's health questions. There aren't. There are answers, all right, but they are not easy.

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.

As an inclusive quality, imagination is thus our primary force for progress, whatever progress is.

What situations can I create that allow me not to have the disease of familiarity?

Order is no guarantee of understanding. Sometimes just the opposite is true.

My only fixed truth is a belief in people, a conviction that if people have the opportunity to act freely and the power to control their own destinies, they'll generally reach the right decisions.

Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular.

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you are free to live.

The preferred world can be seen any evening on television in the succession of programs where the good always wins