Top 6 Donald Horne Quotes (2024 Update)

Donald Horne Quote: “Australia is a lucky country run by second-rate people who share its luck.”

1. “Australia is a lucky country run by second-rate people who share its luck.”

2. “With sport went beer drinking and gambling – until recently restricted by the wowsers, but part of that code of mateship of men, that necessity constantly to demonstrate masculine sameness, which provided one of the most flattening sources of uniformity.”

— Donald Horne

3. “Only in sport? The qualification would seem meaningless to many Australians. What also is there that matters as much as sport? It is only in sport that many Australians express those approaches to life that are un-Australian if expressed in any other connection.”

— Donald Horne

4. “A man who went to the ‘footie’ match on Saturday afternoon and played eighteen holes of golf was really doing his duty by the nation.”

— Donald Horne

5. “Regional interests and loyalties are even stronger among Australians than among Americans – in that in social life they exist almost without challenge. Canberra is a poor thing compared to Washington and there is no great metropolis like New York that sets many of the nation’s trends. There is no generally acknowledged central city where the important things are believed to happen and it seems better to be.”

— Donald Horne

6. “Perhaps all human effort is absurd. – pg112.”

— Donald Horne

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