"Wars don't happen on battlefields; they go on……" — Michael Leunig
"Wars don't happen on battlefields; they go on happening in people's hearts for generations and generations, and the ecological damage is unfathomably complex and dire."
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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 Battlefields Quotes
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one of 45 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet,…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism.
— Leo Tolstoy
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Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War I. Sodium is a corrosive metal which…
— Carl Sagan
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Your nafs (soul/desires) is your first battlefield. If you are victorious over it, then you will find the other battlefields…
— Hassan al-Banna
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I was in the midst of it all - saw war where war is worst - not on the battlefields,…
— Walt Whitman
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This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must…
— Randy Neugebauer
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The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect…
— Henry Waxman
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Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war. Yet despite this capacity for internecine warfare, most companies roll along…
— Charles Duhigg
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If the Europeans truly wish to improve their NATO contribution they can show it simply enough. They can establish professional…
— Margaret Thatcher
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Finally, if you will permit me, I'd like to make a comment which in my mind, is indicative, perhaps, of…
— Nile Kinnick
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There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.
— Alfred M. Gray
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