"All nations that throw their military weight around,……" — Michael Leunig
"All nations that throw their military weight around, occupying neighboring lands and treating the residents with callous and humiliating disregard, are already sliding towards the dark possibilities in human nature."
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108 Quotes by Michael Leunig
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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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