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I never had a spirit-breaking, soul-destroying religion drummed into me. — Michael Leunig

Modern man is probably a more humiliated and depressed creature than he dares to know. — Michael Leunig

Art, like religion, arises from the spirit, but alas, the formalizing of spiritual life all too often ends in hypocrisy. — Michael Leunig

At my advanced age, I know I am not an anti-Semite, not even vaguely or remotely, but others would seem to know better, as false accusers always do. — Michael Leunig

I see a lot of my children. They're around the house all the time on the farm, you know. — Michael Leunig

I became a cartoonist because I'd sort of failed at everything else, really. I mean, it was by default. — Michael Leunig

Stay out of the loop, the club, the inner circle. — Michael Leunig

Wisdom may best arise from a humbling reality. — Michael Leunig

In order to be truthful we must do more than speak the truth. We must also hear truth, receive truth, search for truth. — Michael Leunig

God help us to live slowly:
To move simply:
To look softly:
To allow emptiness:
To let the heart create for us.
Amen. — Michael Leunig

What really irks me is the snide victimizing suggestion from some that I have tried to be lighthearted and funny ... Oh my God - this is so offensive. — Michael Leunig

It is at Easter that Jesus is most human, and like all humans, he fails and is failed. His is not an all-powerful God, it is an all-vulnerable God. — Michael Leunig

I had a few ducks as a kid. — Michael Leunig

It is home schooling that is rejecting a narrowness. It is not a radical value system; it's actually quite conservative. — Michael Leunig

Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world. — Michael Leunig

Life is offensive and refuses to apologise — Michael Leunig

Humanity hungers for the uncommon. — Michael Leunig

Avoiding maturity is, for many men, not just a cute hobby, but a life's work - often handsomely rewarded in the infantile popular culture of the West. — Michael Leunig

Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.' — Michael Leunig

Don't give in to hate - it puts you off balance — Michael Leunig

I never really understood who the Magi were as a child. What is a Magi? Not a word I would use, but a magpie I could understand. — Michael Leunig

I have not much love for the bright lights - unless it's the sun creeping up over the horizon. — Michael Leunig

When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and wistful way that it's a wise man that knows his own father. — Michael Leunig

The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant. — Michael Leunig

Falling down is a very big subject, and so is the concept of downfall. None of us escapes, and I have had my share of both. — Michael Leunig

Happiness, it's a small thing - just a very little thing. — Michael Leunig

My father was a meat worker. He was a union organizer in the meat workers union. — Michael Leunig

There is some suffering that awaits us all. — Michael Leunig

Any cartoon that can be liked by a committee is really not worth drawing; in fact, must not be drawn at all! Better to become a stockbroker. — Michael Leunig

If you know anything about ducks, you know a baby duck will imprint itself on you. It misses its mother. — Michael Leunig

Anzac Day, it seems, must now be done with bluster, hoopla and media hypnotism. — Michael Leunig

A lot of mothers want to be with their children. They can't afford it for this reason or that reason. — Michael Leunig

Have I got the right to experiment with my child's life? — Michael Leunig

Love one another and you will be happy, it is as simple and as difficult as that — Michael Leunig

Sometimes a witticism has no truth behind it. — Michael Leunig

Apparently, the pathfinder duck is a psychological archetype in certain cultures. — Michael Leunig

A beautiful wake-up is one of life's most perfectly happy times. — Michael Leunig

In nicey-nicey land, you must be happy-clappy and positive all the time - bad news is taboo. — Michael Leunig

Emotional stability has not been America's gift to the world. — Michael Leunig

I've learned to respect the whimsical. — Michael Leunig

It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles. — Michael Leunig

The most joyous painting is not done for the art world, it is done for the inner world. — Michael Leunig

The world is philosophically booby-trapped; touch an interesting subject, and it just might blow up in your face. Some say it's better not to touch. — Michael Leunig

Love a single an additional and you will be satisfied. It really is as easy and as challenging as that. — Michael Leunig

Stay away from excellence at all costs; it stinks. — Michael Leunig

I don't like to brag, but I must tell you that I am regarded in some circles as being in the upper echelons of the elite loony left. — Michael Leunig

Each day is a lifetime. In the morning we are born. The day lies before us: vast and bright and new. — Michael Leunig

There are moments when great music can be the greatest service and charity. — Michael Leunig

The work of the artist is to express what is repressed or even to speak the unspoken grief of society. — Michael Leunig

You wouldn't wish hardship on anyone, but when it comes, you would be crazy not to see the huge growth that will come from it. — Michael Leunig

I sense that the road to Heaven is paved with dashed hopes. — Michael Leunig

I didn't mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit. — Michael Leunig

Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage. — Michael Leunig

Darkness is full of possibility. — Michael Leunig

It is difficult to imagine any time in history when so many people claiming to be so free have lived in so much fear of being unattractive. — Michael Leunig

Who can protest alone? Who dares rise up? It is not easy. One is all alone, and evermore shall be so. — Michael Leunig

Integrity is an ecosystem. — Michael Leunig

On Anzac Day, coffee and jokes with a Turk might be the most meaningful and fair dinkum dawn service you could possibly have. — Michael Leunig

Democracy just isn't working any more; without sanity at its heart, it is becoming a most unique and fiendish tyranny. — Michael Leunig

Einstein was a great advocate of the notion that good ideas look absurd at the beginning. Camus expressed a similar view. — Michael Leunig

I'm totally deaf in my right ear, yeah. — Michael Leunig

Pursuit is a rather desperate act in itself. There's something kind of frantic about the notion of pursuit. — Michael Leunig

People seem to take as much offence as they possibly can these days - it's almost a new type of greed, a new kind of road rage. — Michael Leunig

Muftis and bishops should be like ripe camembert cheeses - a bit on the nose and not for the faint-hearted, but memorable! — Michael Leunig

Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works. — Michael Leunig

A world view is probably an expression of self. — Michael Leunig

I had many good teachers, but only three of them were school teachers. — Michael Leunig

In my journey as a cartoonist, I seem to have accidentally stumbled into all sorts of traps, damnations and blacklists. — Michael Leunig

Every child is a greedy child, I think. I mean, it's healthy to be a greedy child. — Michael Leunig

My children just want to get at the world; it is so pleasantly surprising to witness that. — Michael Leunig

I was a reflective child. — Michael Leunig

Each day is a lifetime. — Michael Leunig