To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable.

Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.

There are no masses; there are only ways of seeing people as masses

What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.

The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do.

The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.

Every aspect of personal life is radically affected by the quality of general life, and yet the general life is seen at its most important in completely personal terms.

The gap between our feelings and our social observation is dangerously wide.

It is not primarily ideas that have a history; it is societies. And then what often seem opposed ideas can in the end be seen as parts of a single social process.

A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.

If from poetry we expect a succession of signals for the release of miscellaneous private emotion we are likely to find Tears, Idle Tears valuable.

Pink! My color! My love!

My Master had power and law on his side

She must love me, to worry about me. She must still be capable of love.

I am not (yet) facing the problem of emigration. I want my music to be acknowledged here first of all, in this country: after that, we shall see - perhaps the question will then become urgent.

Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries.

Check disease in its approach.

A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.

Worship is as natural to the human family as the sing of the sun is to the cosmic order.

Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.

Tony Abbott's books are so amazing!