82 Quotes by Thomas Keneally

It was so like old times that Henry found himself smiling down at Olek and Mance, playing to her, capable of ignoring the rest. It did seem for those seconds that the earth had at last been pacified by music.

The List is Life.", Schindler's List

The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender.

Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't

It's only when you abandon your ambitions that they become possible.

Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don’t.

Beyond this day,” he would claim, “no thinking person could fail to see what would happen. I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.

It’s only when you abandon your ambitions that they become possible.

But in practice Australia – the pluralism of Australia – sorry the sectarianism to an extent stopped at the time you took your uniform off after coming home from school.