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Modern man is probably a more humiliated and depressed creature than he dares to know.
— Michael Leunig
Art, like religion, arises from the spirit, but alas, the formalizing of spiritual life all too often ends in hypocrisy.
— Michael Leunig
At my advanced age, I know I am not an anti-Semite, not even vaguely or remotely, but others would seem to know better, as false accusers always do.
— Michael Leunig
I see a lot of my children. They're around the house all the time on the farm, you know.
— Michael Leunig
I became a cartoonist because I'd sort of failed at everything else, really. I mean, it was by default.
— Michael Leunig
Stay out of the loop, the club, the inner circle.
— Michael Leunig
Wisdom may best arise from a humbling reality.
— Michael Leunig
In order to be truthful we must do more than speak the truth. We must also hear truth, receive truth, search for truth.
— Michael Leunig
God help us to live slowly:To move simply:
To look softly:
To allow emptiness:
To let the heart create for us.
Amen. — Michael Leunig
What really irks me is the snide victimizing suggestion from some that I have tried to be lighthearted and funny ... Oh my God - this is so offensive.
— Michael Leunig
It is at Easter that Jesus is most human, and like all humans, he fails and is failed. His is not an all-powerful God, it is an all-vulnerable God.
— Michael Leunig
I had a few ducks as a kid.
— Michael Leunig
It is home schooling that is rejecting a narrowness. It is not a radical value system; it's actually quite conservative.
— Michael Leunig
Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world.
— Michael Leunig
Life is offensive and refuses to apologise
— Michael Leunig
Humanity hungers for the uncommon.
— Michael Leunig
Avoiding maturity is, for many men, not just a cute hobby, but a life's work - often handsomely rewarded in the infantile popular culture of the West.
— Michael Leunig
Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.'
— Michael Leunig
Don't give in to hate - it puts you off balance
— Michael Leunig
I never really understood who the Magi were as a child. What is a Magi? Not a word I would use, but a magpie I could understand.
— Michael Leunig
I have not much love for the bright lights - unless it's the sun creeping up over the horizon.
— Michael Leunig
When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and wistful way that it's a wise man that knows his own father.
— Michael Leunig
The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant.
— Michael Leunig
Falling down is a very big subject, and so is the concept of downfall. None of us escapes, and I have had my share of both.
— Michael Leunig
Happiness, it's a small thing - just a very little thing.
— Michael Leunig
There is some suffering that awaits us all.
— Michael Leunig
Any cartoon that can be liked by a committee is really not worth drawing; in fact, must not be drawn at all! Better to become a stockbroker.
— Michael Leunig
If you know anything about ducks, you know a baby duck will imprint itself on you. It misses its mother.
— Michael Leunig
A lot of mothers want to be with their children. They can't afford it for this reason or that reason.
— Michael Leunig
Have I got the right to experiment with my child's life?
— Michael Leunig
Sometimes a witticism has no truth behind it.
— Michael Leunig
A beautiful wake-up is one of life's most perfectly happy times.
— Michael Leunig
In nicey-nicey land, you must be happy-clappy and positive all the time - bad news is taboo.
— Michael Leunig
Emotional stability has not been America's gift to the world.
— Michael Leunig
I've learned to respect the whimsical.
— Michael Leunig
It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles.
— Michael Leunig
The most joyous painting is not done for the art world, it is done for the inner world.
— Michael Leunig
The world is philosophically booby-trapped; touch an interesting subject, and it just might blow up in your face. Some say it's better not to touch.
— Michael Leunig
Love a single an additional and you will be satisfied. It really is as easy and as challenging as that.
— Michael Leunig
Stay away from excellence at all costs; it stinks.
— Michael Leunig
I don't like to brag, but I must tell you that I am regarded in some circles as being in the upper echelons of the elite loony left.
— Michael Leunig
Each day is a lifetime. In the morning we are born. The day lies before us: vast and bright and new.
— Michael Leunig
The work of the artist is to express what is repressed or even to speak the unspoken grief of society.
— Michael Leunig
You wouldn't wish hardship on anyone, but when it comes, you would be crazy not to see the huge growth that will come from it.
— Michael Leunig
I sense that the road to Heaven is paved with dashed hopes.
— Michael Leunig
Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage.
— Michael Leunig
Darkness is full of possibility.
— Michael Leunig
It is difficult to imagine any time in history when so many people claiming to be so free have lived in so much fear of being unattractive.
— Michael Leunig
Who can protest alone? Who dares rise up? It is not easy. One is all alone, and evermore shall be so.
— Michael Leunig
Integrity is an ecosystem.
— Michael Leunig
On Anzac Day, coffee and jokes with a Turk might be the most meaningful and fair dinkum dawn service you could possibly have.
— Michael Leunig
Democracy just isn't working any more; without sanity at its heart, it is becoming a most unique and fiendish tyranny.
— Michael Leunig
Einstein was a great advocate of the notion that good ideas look absurd at the beginning. Camus expressed a similar view.
— Michael Leunig
I'm totally deaf in my right ear, yeah.
— Michael Leunig
Pursuit is a rather desperate act in itself. There's something kind of frantic about the notion of pursuit.
— Michael Leunig
People seem to take as much offence as they possibly can these days - it's almost a new type of greed, a new kind of road rage.
— Michael Leunig
Muftis and bishops should be like ripe camembert cheeses - a bit on the nose and not for the faint-hearted, but memorable!
— Michael Leunig
Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works.
— Michael Leunig
A world view is probably an expression of self.
— Michael Leunig
In my journey as a cartoonist, I seem to have accidentally stumbled into all sorts of traps, damnations and blacklists.
— Michael Leunig
My children just want to get at the world; it is so pleasantly surprising to witness that.
— Michael Leunig
I was a reflective child.
— Michael Leunig
Each day is a lifetime.
— Michael Leunig