Michael Leunig

There is some suffering that awaits us all.

— Michael Leunig

I have sometimes done cartoons that are hurtful to people - immature, spiteful stuff. Some are so self-indulgent, and some have just…

— Michael Leunig

I must warn you right here and now that I am a 'wet leftie,' a 'leftist' and also a member of the…

— 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

The repression of virtuous instinct in the modern world is an incremental tragedy. Repress one instinct, and you repress many; other parts…

— Michael Leunig

At the very simplest, I think as Van Gogh said and St Francis would have said, we must find nature. Just to…

— Michael Leunig

What modern humans need help with is escaping from the despair of politics, commerce and media, escaping from the drabness and oppressiveness…

— 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

When all is said and done, it looks like the Palestinians have been massively robbed and abused, and are engaged in a…

— Michael Leunig

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

— 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

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

— Michael Leunig

Making jokes is about the most wrong and stupid thing a bemused, middle-aged, white heterosexual Anglo Saxon sort of Celt Australian male…

— Michael Leunig

Humans are nervous, touchy creatures and can be easily offended. Many are deeply insecure. They become focused and energized by taking offence;…

— Michael Leunig

I was a reflective child.

— Michael Leunig

The most joyous painting is not done for the art world, it is done for the inner world.

— Michael Leunig

Wars don't happen on battlefields; they go on happening in people's hearts for generations and generations, and the ecological damage is unfathomably…

— 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…

— 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

A world view is probably an expression of self.

— Michael Leunig

Like normal people, leftists now have to get up in the morning and earn a living, seeing as the fascists have come…

— Michael Leunig

A society that's provided for by television is a society that says it doesn't need too many parks or natural situations for…

— Michael Leunig

I increasingly wonder whether most humans are in a constant state of unconsciously fearing each other. Perhaps they fear how intimately different…

— Michael Leunig

Art, like religion, arises from the spirit, but alas, the formalizing of spiritual life all too often ends in hypocrisy.

— Michael Leunig

Citizens, regardless of their political inclinations, carry a devout sense of their shared culture and its temperament - and, having contributed to…

— Michael Leunig