Michael Leunig

“Life is offensive and refuses to apologise”

— Michael Leunig

“Each day is a lifetime.”

— Michael Leunig

A world view is probably an expression of self.

— Michael Leunig

I'm totally deaf in my right ear, yeah.

— Michael Leunig

Stay out of the loop, the club, the inner circle.

— Michael Leunig

Integrity is an ecosystem.

— Michael Leunig

I've learned to respect the whimsical.

— Michael Leunig

Sometimes a witticism has no truth behind it.

— Michael Leunig

There are moments when great music can be the greatest service and charity.

— Michael Leunig

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that

— Michael Leunig

In nicey-nicey land, you must be happy-clappy and positive all the time - bad news is taboo.

— Michael Leunig

My father was a meat worker. He was a union organizer in the meat workers union.

— Michael Leunig

I see a lot of my children. They're around the house all the time on the farm, you know.

— Michael Leunig

Modern man is probably a more humiliated and depressed creature than he dares to know.

— Michael Leunig

I didn't mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit.

— Michael Leunig

I had many good teachers, but only three of them were school teachers.

— Michael Leunig

Life itself is offensive and certainly does not apologize - in fact, it hurts considerably and, as we all know, is often…

— Michael Leunig

It is difficult to imagine any time in history when so many people claiming to be so free have lived in so…

— Michael Leunig

On Anzac Day, coffee and jokes with a Turk might be the most meaningful and fair dinkum dawn service you could possibly…

— Michael Leunig

In order to be truthful we must do more than speak the truth. We must also hear truth, receive truth, search for…

— Michael Leunig

Pre-Christmas is very important, and it is stressful, and, you know, even in the biblical story... travelling on the donkey in a…

— Michael Leunig

I think melancholy is part of the natural condition, you know. Anyway, I think it's the artist's function to have their melancholy…

— Michael Leunig

In later life, we don't easily talk of fears, but instead we discuss our 'concerns.' Fear seems too primal and hysterical, but…

— Michael Leunig

Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works.

— Michael Leunig

There is a central flaw in contemporary culture and a corresponding and related inability to address it. Society seems somehow unable to…

— Michael Leunig

Perhaps life is actually more confusing and unknowable to an adult than a child, but grown-ups have learned to deceive themselves and…

— Michael Leunig

Practically every technology that is ever invented is touted as being the new savior, the thing that will bring peace and goodwill…

— Michael Leunig

At last, after completing year 12, I failed the great final examination, repeated the following year and failed again even more dismally…

— Michael Leunig

So few humans seem to fully exist themselves that I wonder if all this endless speculation and haggling about God is really…

— Michael Leunig

I am probably not alone in sensing above me the huge corporations and monstrous banks, science, politics and technologies, spy satellites and…

— Michael Leunig

A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of…

— Michael Leunig

If you're becoming weary and disillusioned with Australian values, Judeo-Christian values or Western civilisation, I recommend strangers - they're such a glorious,…

— Michael Leunig

Sometimes I wonder if the semi-conscious agenda of the media is to get between people and their souls. It is the the…

— Michael Leunig

“We struggle, we grow weary, we grow tired. We are exhausted, we are distressed, we despair. We give up, we fall down,…

— Michael Leunig

If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by…

— Michael Leunig

I was a reflective child.

— Michael Leunig

Wisdom may best arise from a humbling reality.

— Michael Leunig

Darkness is full of possibility.

— Michael Leunig

Humanity hungers for the uncommon.

— Michael Leunig

Don't give in to hate - it puts you off balance

— Michael Leunig