Humans are nervous, touchy creatures and can be easily offended. Many are deeply insecure. They become focused and energized by taking offence;… — Michael Leunig Alive Copy Share Image
I don't like to brag, but I must tell you that I am regarded in some circles as being in the upper… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
A street full of electric light is a sign of civic failure and is an insulting injury to the soul. Shutting out… — Michael Leunig Civic Copy Share Image
Love a single an additional and you will be satisfied. It really is as easy and as challenging as that. — Michael Leunig Challenge Copy Share Image
Socialised humanity represses nature and degrades human nature; it takes life and waters it down - probably to control it - diluting… — Michael Leunig Control Copy Share Image
Today, people call each other 'guys' - this derives from Guy Fawkes, the bomb-making terrorist. No greater tribute has ever been paid… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
All the world loves a young emerging artist, and sometimes it seems that all the world wants to be one - on… — Michael Leunig Art Copy Share Image
Many people first encounter Jesus during childhood when they are suddenly confronted by a horrifying statue of a man nailed to a… — Michael Leunig Beginning Copy Share Image
I don't think I have spiritual beliefs in the structured sense - but I believe in the absolute necessity of spirit and… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
I increasingly wonder whether most humans are in a constant state of unconsciously fearing each other. Perhaps they fear how intimately different… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
When the heart is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the wind from… — Michael Leunig Bells Copy Share Image
What modern humans need help with is escaping from the despair of politics, commerce and media, escaping from the drabness and oppressiveness… — Michael Leunig Business Copy Share Image
As a cartoonist, I am not interested in defending the dominant, the powerful, the well-resourced and the well-armed because such groups are… — Michael Leunig Advocacy Copy Share Image
God bless this tiny little boat, And me who travels in it. It stays afloat for years and years, And sinks within… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
While the world may feel entitled and have the power to pronounce an individual crazy, are there times when the innocent genius,… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Try as I do to comprehend the human project and my part in it, I am further than ever from understanding the… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
People seem to take as much offence as they possibly can these days - it's almost a new type of greed, a… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast,… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
It is at Easter that Jesus is most human, and like all humans, he fails and is failed. His is not an… — Michael Leunig All-powerful Copy Share Image
How many times have I heard people say, 'I became very ill a couple of years ago; it got very serious, and… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Einstein was a great advocate of the notion that good ideas look absurd at the beginning. Camus expressed a similar view. — Michael Leunig Absurd Copy Share Image
Out of economic hardship can come change - we are suddenly cast onto our wits and our talents and our resources and… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
We may lose our memory as we get older, but this might not be such a bad thing - who wants to… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
You wouldn't wish hardship on anyone, but when it comes, you would be crazy not to see the huge growth that will… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
As we grow, we lift our gaze higher and higher, and then sometimes we are brought to our knees, but all is… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Any cartoon that can be liked by a committee is really not worth drawing; in fact, must not be drawn at all!… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
A lot of mothers want to be with their children. They can't afford it for this reason or that reason. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
The repression of virtuous instinct in the modern world is an incremental tragedy. Repress one instinct, and you repress many; other parts… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
The child who has no need to feign empirical knowledge about life can wonder and fantasise with great ease. The world is… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
When people talk about their God, it is difficult to know what they actually mean, and when people talk about their atheism,… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Art, like religion, arises from the spirit, but alas, the formalizing of spiritual life all too often ends in hypocrisy. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
For 13 years, I struggled with education and have only just realised that I was actually struggling to protect myself from it.… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul'… — Michael Leunig Art Copy Share Image
It is home schooling that is rejecting a narrowness. It is not a radical value system; it's actually quite conservative. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Two's company and three's a crowd, but seven can be an uprising. And the seven can become 70 or 700 or 7000… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
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 Damage Copy Share Image
The scariness of manhood to males may be symbolically seen in the many stories of indigenous Australian boys who ran away and… — Michael Leunig Australian Copy Share Image
What really irks me is the snide victimizing suggestion from some that I have tried to be lighthearted and funny... Oh my… — Michael Leunig Funny Copy Share Image
To live in the midst of suffering, which we do, we do, amid distress, and to keep some equilibrium in the midst… — Michael Leunig Distress Copy Share Image
Muftis and bishops should be like ripe camembert cheeses - a bit on the nose and not for the faint-hearted, but memorable! — Michael Leunig Bishops Copy Share Image
