Quotes by Australian/Australia authors (page 4)

"Something is always simple until you try it"

Craig Bruce

"Now is the time for all good men to run like hell"

Craig Bruce

"Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea"

Craig Bruce

"It's funny how most activists are pacifists"

Craig Bruce

"I wonder if those people shown protesting the deployment of nuclear weapons to western Europe during the Reagan era are feeling appropriately stupid today. 'Please don't take away our precious Soviet Union! - We demand the annihilation of all life on Earth!'"

Craig Bruce

"Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation"

Craig Bruce

"Liberalism is financed by the dividends from Conservatism"

Craig Bruce

"It's easy to idealize someone that you don't know"

Craig Bruce

"Fighting a war on terrorism is like fighting against crime. We can never hope to eradicate crime, so we shouldn't bother fighting it"

Craig Bruce

"Don't judge a book by its thickness either"

Craig Bruce

"Anything on paper is obsolete!"

Craig Bruce

"There is no such thing as security. There never has been"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"Time is a resource whose supply is inversely proportional to its demand"

Craig Bruce

"Never underestimate the power of a simple tool"

Craig Bruce

"My to-do list is so long that it doesn't have an end; it has an event horizon"

Craig Bruce

"I think; therefore, I am the center of the universe"

Craig Bruce

"I am woman, hear me bitch"

Craig Bruce

"Don't trust anyone who has been in school for the past 24 consecutive years"

Craig Bruce

"Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"I think that testosterone is a rare poison"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"Yeah, computers are going to take over the programming business because they have become so fast recently that they can solve the Halting Problem in five seconds flat"

Craig Bruce

"The only people I've ever heard saying that disagreeing with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld is un-American or treasonous are people who disagree with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld"

Craig Bruce

"Organizations like the ACLU fought and won the good fight back in the 1960's, but it's clear that nowadays they've run out of useful things to do since they now spend most of their time defending the scum of the Earth from getting what they rightly deserve"

Craig Bruce