A conservative is someone who does not think he is morally superior to his grandfather.

It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility.

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, There's no place like home.

The most important civil liberty... is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death.

You are not prime minister of Australia because of some kind of process of divine selection. You are prime minister of Australia through the gift of the Australian people.

I'd like to be seen as an average Australian bloke. I can't think of... I can't think of a nobler description of anybody than to be called an average Australian bloke.

People who say they're too busy to have lunch have a false impression of their own importance.

Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.

For so long as we condone injustice by a small but powerful group, we condone the destruction of all social stability, all real peace, all trust in man's good intentions toward his fellow man.

I don't think there's any reason on Earth why people should have access to automatic and semiautomatic weapons unless they're in the military or in the police.

I thank all of those who weren't born in this country for coming here and making a contribution to Australia. We are the least discriminatory country in the world, in my view.

Life during the wedding day can be so simple, but life after the wedding day can be THE HARDEST.

What we call as burden of life is nothing but the human failure on the matter of creating a just world!

But what is unjust? That depends on a person's thoughts, values, and beliefs. People differ sharply on what is just or unjust in this world. Thus, some people become angry much quicker than others.

The savage hatred I feel for crowds is getting worse, natural enemies that they are of imagination and of thought.

We meet thus in kitsch with a reappropriation of the results of past struggles.

And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost.

We must support as much as possible the child's desires for activity; not wait on him, but educate him to be independent.

It was not a happy ending of the sort in fairy tales, but it was the only one we had.

Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.

And still, the best of us build, and reach monetary gains. Some of us kill, but still, most of us can change.