All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the acceptance of differences, not the search for similarities which enables people to relate to each other in their personal or family lives.
John Ralston SaulIn a society of ideological believers, nothing is more ridiculous than the individual who doubts and does not conform.
John Ralston SaulMarx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise.
John Ralston SaulAs an inclusive quality, imagination is thus our primary force for progress, whatever progress is.
John Ralston Saul