All Michael Leunig Quotes
- The insatiable need for heartless power and ruthless control is the telltale sign of an uninitiated man - the most irresponsible, incompetent and destructive force… Control
- The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant. Disasters
- In nicey-nicey land, you must be happy-clappy and positive all the time - bad news is taboo. All
- Darkness is full of possibility. Darkness
- A street full of electric light is a sign of civic failure and is an insulting injury to the soul. Shutting out the night is… Civic
- A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of much earthly value,… Amused
- Try as I do to comprehend the human project and my part in it, I am further than ever from understanding the monstrous everyday things… Comprehend
- 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… Big
- Who can protest alone? Who dares rise up? It is not easy. One is all alone, and evermore shall be so. All
- In some ways, calm bodily protest has a nakedness to it that may be deeply embarrassing for observers; an act not unlike the bare-faced Oliver… Act
- The relentless invisible storm of radio signals and electronic particles, the hustle and bustle, and the billions of petrol explosions in the engine blocks of… Beautiful
- Fogs are like dreams that feed the soul, and without their mysterious embrace, childhood, courtship, poetry and the composition of music become all the more… All
- Murk can be described as an enfeebled fog with a personality disorder; it is more troubled than ethereal, sulking moodily over our lives at the… Day
- If the nose has become a deeply disillusioned and grief-stricken organ in the modern world, then what of the ear? The poor little ear -… Brutality
- A dear friend of my early childhood has worked as an anthropologist in Papua New Guinea for much of her life, and from the tiny… Anthropologist
- There is a central flaw in contemporary culture and a corresponding and related inability to address it. Society seems somehow unable to adequately help or… Address
- The scariness of manhood to males may be symbolically seen in the many stories of indigenous Australian boys who ran away and hid in the… Approached
- In the modern world, it may be that a living father can only be half a father to a boy - the dead father is… All
- The repression of virtuous instinct in the modern world is an incremental tragedy. Repress one instinct, and you repress many; other parts of consciousness go… Consciousness
- Integrity is an ecosystem. Ecosystem