top of page
Quote_1.png
Hugh Mackay

"I wish we didn't have to own up to a policy deliberately designed to inflict suffering on people who have already been traumatised in the countries from which they've fled."

Standard 
 Customized
"I wish we didn't have to own up to a policy deliberately designed to inflict suffering on people who have already been traumatised in the countries from which they've fled."

More 

Quote_1.png
Assegid Habtewold

"It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Assegid Habtewold

"We ought to know that all people are not the same and so we must not expect the same attitude from all people. Different people behave differently and that is what makes different people different."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Assegid Habtewold

"If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!"

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Assegid Habtewold

"Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Assegid Habtewold

"People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Assegid Habtewold

"Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Assegid Habtewold

"People always ask me, how do you do everything you do?"

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Assegid Habtewold

"It only takes five people in black robes to determine such crucial issues for our country as abortion, pornography, same-sex 'marriage,' and religious liberties."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Assegid Habtewold

"It is dishonest the way that people suddenly think they've found guitars, and wear their guitar as a badge."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Assegid Habtewold

"I think that people ran out of oxygen and don't really know what happened up there, maybe some of them just made things up because they weren't sure what had happened."

Author Name

Personal Development

More 

Quote_1.png
Hugh Mackay
"But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem like a decision at all."

Life

Quote_1.png
Hugh Mackay
"Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable."

Love

Quote_1.png
Hugh Mackay
"So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates?"

Cinema

Quote_1.png
Hugh Mackay
"I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments; I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name."

Sympathy

Quote_1.png
Hugh Mackay
"It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them."

May

Quote_1.png
Hugh Mackay
"The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our education system, or are we bold enough to see what's actually happening to our culture?"

Education

Quote_1.png
Hugh Mackay
"Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account."

Children

Quote_1.png
Hugh Mackay
"Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaningful and fulfilling life would regard the church as an unlikely place to go for guidance."

Life

Quote_1.png
Hugh Mackay
"Some researchers sensibly suggest that rather than worrying too much about which programs our children are watching, we should concentrate on trying to reduce the total amount of time they spend in front of the screen."

Time

Quote_1.png
Hugh Mackay
"Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people."

People

bottom of page