Quote #18
If Marx were functioning today, he would have been hard put to avoid saying that imaginary sex is the opiate of the people.
More from John Ralston Saul
- Superficial nonconformism... leaves our rational structures indifferent. Questions of moral action and of physical appearance are increasin…
- The idea underlying such endless discussion and dreaming about the physical act is that sexual expertise confers worldliness and is therefo…
- The individual has been allowed out of his socially constructed cage. That, at least, is the contemporary myth. What is not clear, however,…
- There is little to envy in the woman's position either. For perhaps the first time in history, she has a general sense of herself as an ind…
- [Modern capitalism] is masterful at producing services people don't need and in large part probably don't want. It is brilliant at convinci…
- Societies either roll on blindly to disaster or they find the inner strength to stop themselves long enough to find ways for reform from wi…
- [T]he free market may be a good, bad or insufficient idea, but, in any case, it is just a crude commercial code. Now it is regularly equate…
- The conclusion drawn by ... most of our elites ... is that the population constitutes a deep and dangerous well of ignorance and irrational…