Just Saying: Exploring twenty-five remarkable quotations to enlighten, challenge and inspire - Softcover

Mackay, Hugh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1761473034 ISBN 13: 9781761473036

Publisher: Allen & Unwin, 2025

Synopsis

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

About this title

About the Author

Hugh Mackay is a social psychologist and bestselling author of twenty-five books, including The Way We Are and The Kindness Revolution. Often described as “the man who explains us to ourselves,” he enjoyed a sixty-year career in social research and spent thirty years as a weekly newspaper columnist. In recognition of his pioneering work, he has received honorary doctorates from five Australian universities and was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2016.

Edition details

• Publisher: Allen & Unwin
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1761473034
• ISBN 13: 9781761473036
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256