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There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting.

— John Ralston Saul The Doubter's Companion (1994)

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It is the considered opinion of most members of our rational élites that, in any given difference of opinion with reality, reality is wrong.

The Doubter's Companion (1994)

In all earlier civilizations, it should be remembered, commerce was treated as a narrow activity and by no means the senior sector in society.

The Doubter's Companion (1994)

It is undoubtedly easier to believe in absolutes, follow blindly, mouth received wisdom. But that is self-betrayal.

The Doubter's Companion (1994)

Which is ideology? Which not? You shall know them by their assertion of truth, their contempt for considered reflection, and their fear of debate.

The Doubter's Companion (1994)

Elites quite naturally define as the most important and admired qualities for a citizen those on which they themselves have concentrated.

Voltaire's Bastards (1992)

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