Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive. - Anthony Burgess

She gave the lie to the European superstition - chiefly a missionary superstition - that the women of the East are downtrodden.

And so I hunger for something that is permanent, something that will last forever. Truth, I am told, is a thing that will last forever.

The consciousness in [Australia and New Zealand] of the elevation of a substandard dialect into a national tongue has been responsible for a mixture of attitudes to citizens of the mother country - inferiority, defiance, contempt. A blending of the first two may be responsible for the upward intonation pattern of answers, more appropriate to questions….slang is of its nature defiant. It is also demotic….But the ruling class of Australia is itself demotic.