"I increasingly wonder whether most humans are in……" — Michael Leunig
"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 be to them, and the problem is that there is no real way of finding out just how huge that difference might be."
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Michael Leunig
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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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Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to…
— Chinua Achebe
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Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be…
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I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.
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The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops.…
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The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by…
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To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular…
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People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in…
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The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his…
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I'm in a constant process of thinking about things.
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Marriages, like careers, need constant nurturing... the secret of having it all is loving it all.
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That's gotta be the one remaining constant - jeans have gotta be tight, baby.
— Luke Bryan
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For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime…
— Albert Camus
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