"A street full of electric light is a……" — Michael Leunig
"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 as disastrous as shutting out the light."
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108 Quotes by Michael Leunig
Michael Leunig has 108 quotes on this site.
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If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and…
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There was all this loneliness in my cartoons and people would say, "Gee, these characters are so lonely, disconnected, depressed."…
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When the heart is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the…
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Each day is a lifetime. In the morning we are born. The day lies before us: vast and bright and…
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Sometimes I wonder if the semi-conscious agenda of the media is to get between people and their souls. It is…
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There is some suffering that awaits us all.
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The cartoonist’s task is not so much to be balanced as to give balance, particularly in situations of disproportionate power…
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God bless this tiny little boat, And me who travels in it. It stays afloat for years and years, And…
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At the very simplest, I think as Van Gogh said and St Francis would have said, we must find nature.…
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For me, spirit is the impulse towards life, the Eros in a person leaping forward, whereas soul refers to something…
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I didn't mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit.
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Ah, whimsical. It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles. As is what I do is acting…
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More Civic Quotes
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Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.
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I believe that a newspaper is a great civic asset and that ownership is best in the hands of foundations…
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I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind…
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Every sane man recognises that unlimited liberty is anarchy, or rather is nonentity. The civic idea of liberty is to…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Americanization means the process of becoming an American. It means civic incorporation, becoming a part of the polity - becoming…
— Barbara Jordan
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Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and…
— John Ashcroft
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It is alleged by men of loose principles , or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are…
— Noah Webster
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In an era when careerism dominates the campus, is it too much to expect students to go beyond their private…
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The Civic University operates on a global scale but uses its location to form its identity.
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Chastity, like honesty, is a civic as well as a personal virtue. When a society loses chastity, it begins to…
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The aim of the popularization of economic studies is not to make every man an economist. The idea is to…
— Ludwig von Mises
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O Jesus, come back into our society, our family life, our souls and reign there as our peaceful Sovereign. Enlighten…
— Pope John XXIII
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