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The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense QUOTES

1 " Like other ideologies, that of free trade contains unspoken contempt for the individual citizen. It is a despairing response to the complexities of the real world and the politics of despair always replace choice with inevitability. Indeed despair is the natural tone of economists when they are selling their theories of salvation. "

― John Ralston Saul , The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense

2 " While these organized interest groups argue, most people ask themselves why they must always be presented with religious options? Why must they identify the single pure truth in order to avoid an apocalypse? Is there any difference between Vladimir Lenin the communist, Mikhail Makunin the anarchist and Milton Friedman the marketist? No. All three are ideologues.

Like other ideologies, that of free trade contains unspoken contempt for the individual citizen. It is a despairing response to the complexities of the real world and the politics of despair always replace choice with inevitability. Indeed despair is the natural tone of economists when they are selling their theories of salvation. "

― John Ralston Saul , The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense