All Michael Leunig Quotes
- 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
- Modern man is probably a more humiliated and depressed creature than he dares to know. Creature
- Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage. Advantage
- The child who has no need to feign empirical knowledge about life can wonder and fantasise with great ease. The world is his oyster, or… Any
- Wisdom may best arise from a humbling reality. Arise
- It is known that wildfires behave unpredictably - this is fundamental - but it is my experience that humans in the presence of wildfire are… Aberrant
- The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast, it has lit… Blast
- There are moments when great music can be the greatest service and charity. Charity
- Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world. Art
- What a magical thing is the bed, and what a vulnerable, innocent creature is the sleeping human - the human who never looks more truthful… Adrift
- Of all the seasons, winter is the most conducive to the great art of dormancy. This art requires an appreciation of semi-consciousness: the beautiful and… All
- Sadly, semi-consciousness, along with daydreaming, is a capacity that is actively discouraged among children in schools, and our society is much poorer and harsher as… Actively
- As a child, I dreamed that my bed could fly and glide and swoop and hover high over the countryside near my home while, snug… Bed
- Life itself is offensive and certainly does not apologize - in fact, it hurts considerably and, as we all know, is often very rude and… All
- Socialised humanity represses nature and degrades human nature; it takes life and waters it down - probably to control it - diluting existence with water… Control
- Einstein was a great advocate of the notion that good ideas look absurd at the beginning. Camus expressed a similar view. Absurd
- I increasingly wonder whether most humans are in a constant state of unconsciously fearing each other. Perhaps they fear how intimately different other people might… Constant
- I sense that the road to Heaven is paved with dashed hopes. Dashed
- Citizens, regardless of their political inclinations, carry a devout sense of their shared culture and its temperament - and, having contributed to it all their… All
- As a child, I heard many warnings from teachers about the perils of talking with strangers. Yet now, fairly late in my life, I can… Appealing
- At the age of nine, I simultaneously fell in love with two Dutch sisters because they seemed so beautifully strange, and their clothes were mysterious… Added