Every eye is an eye, when you're doing the surgery there that is just as important as if you were doing eye surgery on the prime minster or the king.

- Fred Hollows

Each year in Africa about two and a half million people go blind...and they just go blind... they sit around in their huts.

- Fred Hollows

The neglect this implied, the suffering and wasted quality of human life were appalling.

- Fred Hollows

I believe that the basic attribute of mankind is to look after each other

- Fred Hollows

When I've seen an opportunity I haven't sat down and called a committee meeting, We've gone and done it.

- Fred Hollows

I have been lucky in that I've been alive at times when the things that I wanted to do were capable of being done.

- Fred Hollows

I studied medicine so I could help others - set a leg or whatever - and it's given me a great deal of satisfaction.

- Fred Hollows

To my mind, having a care and concern for others is the highest of the human qualities.

- Fred Hollows

You disappoint yourself more often by not doing things because of cowardice and temerity than you ever did by doing things that turn out to be wrong.

- Fred Hollows