Top 150 Quotes by Michael Leunig

About Michael Leunig

These are some quotes by Australian author Michael Leunig Cartoonist, who was born on June 2, 1945.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Michael Leunig

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

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

Michael Leunig

How many times have I heard people say, 'I became very ill a couple of years ago; it got very serious, and I look back and give thanks for how it changed me and the truth I found.'

How many times have I heard people say, 'I became very ill a couple of years ago; it got very serious, and I look back and give thanks for how it changed me and the truth I found.'

Michael Leunig

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

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

Michael Leunig

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

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

Michael Leunig

Perhaps the more benign and poetic sense of God is established when we are babies in the moments of primal joy we might call 'the epiphanies of infancy' - the sensation of being blissfully held and feeling complete and at one with everything - yet having no words or no need to say it but instead to just assimilate the feeling.

Michael Leunig

If you're becoming weary and disillusioned with Australian values, Judeo-Christian values or Western civilisation, I recommend strangers - they're such a glorious, redeeming wilderness to wander into.

If you're becoming weary and disillusioned with Australian values, Judeo-Christian values or Western civilisation, I recommend strangers - they're such a glorious, redeeming wilderness to wander into.

Michael Leunig

I have always loved contemporary dance, but it has always been a bit of a mystery to me. But choreography is very much like what I do when you are putting characters in frame on the page. It's so impressive what they do with their bodies. It's like painting: an abstraction.

Michael Leunig

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