3 John Ralston Saul Quotes on Crisis

John Ralston Saul quotes on crisis

21. Societies either roll on blindly to disaster or they find the inner strength to stop themselves long enough to find ways for reform from within.

48. [G]iven our inability over the past two decades to deal with an unbreakable chain of unemployment, debt, inflation and no real growth, we have drifted farther and farther out into a cold, unfriendly, confusing sea. The new certitude of those in positions of authority - those out of the water - is that the certain answer is to cut away the life preservers.

50. [O]ur elite is primarily and increasingly managerial. A managerial elite manages. A crisis, unfortunately, requires thought. Thought is not a management function.