All Michael Leunig Quotes
- Out of economic hardship can come change - we are suddenly cast onto our wits and our talents and our resources and our strengths, as… All
- Many people first encounter Jesus during childhood when they are suddenly confronted by a horrifying statue of a man nailed to a cross, and this… Beginning
- 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… All
- Easter is not limited to the passion and death of Christ; it also includes the dismal tragedy of life unlived by the many, and all… All
- To live in the midst of suffering, which we do, we do, amid distress, and to keep some equilibrium in the midst of that -… Amid
- For 13 years, I struggled with education and have only just realised that I was actually struggling to protect myself from it. I was trying… Actually Struggling
- I had many good teachers, but only three of them were school teachers. Good
- At last, after completing year 12, I failed the great final examination, repeated the following year and failed again even more dismally than before. This… Completing
- Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works. All
- Meat workers may have been looked down upon socially, but at least they were well-paid and were a fit and lively bunch as a result… Been
- 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