Donald Horne Quotes

#1. The only thing that anyone can diagnose, with any certainty, by looking at a fat person, is their own level of stereotype and prejudice toward fat people.

Marilyn Wann

#2. That which we do not confront in ourselves we will meet as fate.

Carl Jung

#3. Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.

Zygmunt Bauman

#4. I'm not supposed to know anything about foreign policy. Just thought I'd throw that out.

Herman Cain

#5. A man who went to the 'footie' match on Saturday afternoon and played eighteen holes of golf was really doing his duty by the nation.

Donald Horne

#6. With sport went beer drinking and gambling - until recently restricted by the wowsers, but part of that code of mateship of men, that necessity constantly to demonstrate masculine sameness, which provided one of the most flattening sources of uniformity.

Donald Horne

#7. At least Russia and China didn't call us names when we smiled sweetly at America.

Sukarno

#8. It may be that only when xenophobia stops working as an election winner will the way be cleared for a return to bipartisanship

Donald Horne

#9. ...the first move to a more tolerant Australia must come from controlling the aversion to Muslims that is at present the principal xenophobia in this country.

Donald Horne

#10. Only in sport? The qualification would seem meaningless to many Australians. What also is there that matters as much as sport? It is only in sport that many Australians express those approaches to life that are un-Australian if expressed in any other connection.

Donald Horne

#11. I have a lot of fans who are people of color. I think, if nothing else, I kind of understand that sense of being on the outside looking in, culturally.

Wes Craven

#12. Australia is a lucky country run by second-rate people who share its luck.

Donald Horne

#13. It's funny whom we end up choosing to love and who ends up choosing to love us. It's rarely the people we think it should be.

Robin Jones Gunn