John Ralston Saul Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: b. June 19, 1947
Birthday: June 19
They (the novelists) became the voice of the citizen against the ubiquitous raison d'état, which reappeared endlessly to justify everything from unjust laws and the use of child labour to incompetent generalship and inhuman conditions on warships. The themes they popularized have gradually turned into the laws which, for all their flaws, have improved the state of man.
topic: Children, Men, Law, Warships, Child Labour, Unjust Laws
