Just Saying
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Just Saying

Exploring twenty-five remarkable quotations to enlighten, challenge and inspire

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eBook - ePub

Just Saying

Exploring twenty-five remarkable quotations to enlighten, challenge and inspire

About this book

Reflections on profound sayings, ancient and modern, by iconic social researcher Hugh Mackay
Warm, witty, wise – and occasionally challenging – Just Saying is bestselling social psychologist Hugh Mackay's highly personal reflections on twenty-five quotations from some of the world's greatest thinkers and writers, from Confucius and Plato to Susan Sontag and Miles Franklin; from Samuel Johnson and Mary Wollstonecraft to Bertrand Russell and Gloria Steinem.
Interpreting our world and inspiring us to do better, Mackay explores themes ranging from kindness and humility to power and prejudice; from gender equality to ethnic diversity; from coping with change to the damage inflicted on ourselves by revenge, and the great gulf between propriety and virtue.
As Mackay says: 'Writing these reflections has felt a bit like the beginning of a conversation ... now it's over to you.'
'Hugh Mackay is one of this country's most perceptive social commentators.' - Sydney Morning Herald
'Mackay is something of a national treasure.' - Canberra Times

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Information

Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781923492080
Topic
Personal Development
Subtopic
Self Improvement

Table of contents

  1. COVER PAGE
  2. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  3. ALSO BY HUGH MACKAY
  4. TITLE PAGE
  5. COPYRIGHT PAGE
  6. DEDICATION
  7. CONTENTS
  8. PREFACE
  9. 1 THE GREAT MAN IS HE WHO DOES NOT LOSE HIS CHILD’S HEART
  10. 2 KNITTING IS NOT ENOUGH
  11. 3 FOOLS AND FANATICS ARE ALWAYS SO CERTAIN OF THEMSELVES, AND WISER PEOPLE SO FULL OF DOUBTS
  12. 4 FORGIVENESS IS REMEMBERING WITHOUT PAIN
  13. 5 IT TAKES A VILLAGE TO RAISE A CHILD
  14. 6 MINUTE ATTENTION TO PROPRIETY STOPS THE GROWTH OF VIRTUE
  15. 7 THE LUCKY COUNTRY
  16. 8 ATTACK THE EVIL THAT IS WITHIN YOURSELF RATHER THAN ATTACKING THE EVIL THAT IS IN OTHERS
  17. 9 IN A DREAM YOU ARE NEVER EIGHTY
  18. 10 KINDNESS IS IN OUR POWER, EVEN WHEN FONDNESS IS NOT
  19. 11 INTERPRETATION IS THE REVENGE OF THE INTELLECT UPON ART
  20. 12 RELIGION IS THE SIGH OF THE OPPRESSED CREATURE, THE HEART OF A HEARTLESS WORLD . . . IT IS THE OPIUM OF THE PEOPLE
  21. 13 IT IS OUR LIGHT, NOT OUR DARKNESS, THAT MOST FRIGHTENS US
  22. 14 MEN WHO ARE UNHAPPY, LIKE MEN WHO SLEEP BADLY, ARE ALWAYS PROUD OF THE FACT
  23. 15 BEFORE YOU EMBARK ON A JOURNEY OF REVENGE, DIG TWO GRAVES
  24. 16 THE FIRST PROBLEM FOR ALL OF US, MEN AND WOMEN, IS NOT TO LEARN, BUT TO UNLEARN
  25. 17 THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE
  26. 18 IF WOMEN ARE EXPECTED TO DO THE SAME WORK AS MEN, WE MUST TEACH THEM THE SAME THINGS
  27. 19 CHANGE IS NEVER PAINFUL; ONLY THE RESISTANCE TO CHANGE IS PAINFUL
  28. 20 POWER TENDS TO CORRUPT, AND ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY
  29. 21 THE UNEXAMINED LIFE IS NOT WORTH LIVING
  30. 22 IT IS NOT OUR DIFFERENCES THAT DIVIDE US. IT IS OUR INABILITY TO RECOGNISE, ACCEPT AND CELEBRATE THOSE DIFFERENCES
  31. 23 IF IT BLEEDS, IT LEADS
  32. 24 HUMILITY IS A RARE VIRTUE AND AN UNFASHIONABLE ONE
  33. 25 REPENT! THE END IS NIGH
  34. SOURCES OF THE TWENTY-FIVE QUOTATIONS
  35. OTHER REFERENCES
  36. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS