"Even Australians who take a very, very hard line about asylum seekers - and unfortunately there are more than I would like to think - are probably a bit uncomfortable with the kind of treatment that has been meted out to children in detention by the Australian Government, in their name."

-- Malcolm Fraser

#Children Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Government Quotes

“Many artists have said that when life itself becomes fully conscious, art as we know it will vanish.”

Source : Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher
“Christians often want to hide behind the walls of the church, where we are comfortable, but sometimes we have to come out of the box.”
“If you can't pronounce a word correctly, just don't use it.”
“My idea of Heaven is what we've got right now, right here!-All this beauty and pleasure and fun and inspiration and spirit and fellowship and joy, all of this and more so and more of it!”
“Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude.”
“The more something upsets you, the more it is meant for you. When it no longer upsets you, it is no longer needed because the lesson is complete.”
“That really hurt me- I tried to help those children but people just wanted to make fun of me.It was cruel and unnecessary.”
“If you were ever dumped after knitting a guy a sweater, consider the possibility that the problem was with the sweater, not you. The recipient probably took one look at the thing, imagined a lifetime of having to pretend to like (and wear) this sweater and others of its like, and saw no choice but to flee into the night”

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