Quotes by Michael Leunig - Page 4

What modern humans need help with is escaping from the despair of politics, commerce and media, escaping from the drabness and oppressiveness of worldly values and seeing through suburban mentality and normal community standards so that they can find some much-needed relief for their wilting souls.
Michael Leunig / Cartoonist
Commerce
Despair
Escaping
Humans
Mentality
Relief
Standards
Worldly
Souls
Suburban
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I don't think I have spiritual beliefs in the structured sense - but I believe in the absolute necessity of spirit and a healthy spiritual life. It grew inside me by itself, which is surely the very nature of spirit, and instinctively I protected and nourished it. I also absorbed spirituality by osmosis.
Michael Leunig / Cartoonist
Protected
Spiritual Life
Absolute
Absolute Necessity
Beliefs
Instinctively
Nourished
Structured
Surely
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The relentless invisible storm of radio signals and electronic particles, the hustle and bustle, and the billions of petrol explosions in the engine blocks of trucks and cars seem to churn up the molecules of life and heaven so violently that the beautiful fogs are unable to hold together like they once did.
Michael Leunig / Cartoonist
Billions
Bustle
Explosions
Heaven
Hustle
Invisible
Molecules
Particles
Petrol
Relentless
Signals
Storm
Blocks
Electronic
Engine
Trucks
Unable
Violently
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At last, after completing year 12, I failed the great final examination, repeated the following year and failed again even more dismally than before. This was not an easy thing to do. My mates did the simple thing in the first place and mainly passed with honours and went on to have remarkably successful lives.
Michael Leunig / Cartoonist
Completing
Examination
Following
Mates
Easy Thing
Failed
First Place
Simple Thing
Honours
Mainly
Passed
Remarkably
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At the age of nine, I simultaneously fell in love with two Dutch sisters because they seemed so beautifully strange, and their clothes were mysterious and alluring - added to which, they could not speak a word of English. More than anything, I wanted to connect with them and embark on a vast journey of exploration.
Michael Leunig / Cartoonist
Journey
Age
Alluring
Clothes
Dutch
Exploration
Mysterious
Nine
Speak
Strange
Wanted
Added
Beautifully
English
Sisters
Connect
Vast
Embark
Word
More Than Anything
Seemed
Simultaneously
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There can be many reasons to travel, but wandering into the world for no particular reason is a sublime madness, which in all its whimsy and pointlessness may depict the story of life - and indeed could be a useful model to keep in mind, seeing as so much of life's ambition comes unstuck or leads to nothing much at all.
Michael Leunig / Cartoonist
Travel
Ambition
Madness
Particular
Sublime
Life Travel World
Life World Mind
Useful
Depict
Model
Wandering
Indeed
Leads
Reasons
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Over the years, my marks on paper have landed me in all sorts of courts and controversies - I have been comprehensively labelled; anti-this and anti-that, anti-social, anti-football, anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-Semitic, anti-science, anti-republican, anti-American, anti-Australian - to recall just an armful of the antis.
Michael Leunig / Cartoonist
Anti-american
Paper
Controversies
Courts
Labelled
Marks
Recall
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We might imagine that Jesus had many human faults. He failed most humanly, in my reckoning, when he killed the fig tree just because it didn't bear any figs for his breakfast; that was a disgraceful, bad-tempered thing to do, and to try and make a virtue of it by saying it was a demonstration of faith only made things worse.
Michael Leunig / Cartoonist
Breakfast
Demonstration
Disgraceful
Faults
Reckoning
Tree
Virtue
Bear
Failed
Fig
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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 / Cartoonist
Benign
Infancy
Poetic
Primal
Assimilate
Babies
Established
Blissfully
Held
No Words
Sensation
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There's a particular sensitivity required to be an artist, and a certain vulnerability, perhaps, and also, somewhere between, you're in your body a lot, too. It's much more physical than one would imagine because I think it's the body where the imagination lives somehow. I do feel the imagination isn't just in the brain up there.
Michael Leunig / Cartoonist
Imagination
Brain
Imagine
Particular
Sensitivity
Vulnerability
Your Body
Brain Your Body
Perhaps
Physical
Required
Somehow
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When all is said and done, it looks like the Palestinians have been massively robbed and abused, and are engaged in a desperate struggle for survival and liberation. Israel, on the other hand, would appear to be conducting an imperialistic campaign of oppression supported and substantially armed by the most powerful nation on earth.
Michael Leunig / Cartoonist
Abuse
Conducting
Desperate
Engaged
Israel
Liberation
Most Powerful
Oppression
Survival
Appear
Armed
Campaign
Imperialistic
Massively
Palestinians
Powerful Nation
Robbed
Substantially
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As a cartoonist, I am not interested in defending the dominant, the powerful, the well-resourced and the well-armed because such groups are usually not in need of advocacy, moral support or sympathetic understanding; they have already organised sufficient publicity for themselves and prosecute their points of view with great efficiency.
Michael Leunig / Cartoonist
Advocacy
Cartoonist
Groups
Not Interested
Organised
Publicity
Sufficient
Sympathetic
Defending
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To be a pleasant person, you would at least need to see the point of being a pleasant person, or have it explained to you at some sort of 'finishing school' where you could actually learn the laws of propriety and the skills of appearing well-adapted, easygoing and attractively trouble free. But where do you learn these things? I don't know.
Michael Leunig / Cartoonist
Appearing
Finishing
Pleasant
Propriety
Skills
Easygoing
Explained
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Is a brazen and innocent confrontation with paternal authority an unbearably terrifying prospect to some? Are the consequences of a fathers anger and displeasure so catastrophic in the primal imagination that every semblance of it in the world both literally and metaphorically must be denounced in the strongest possible terms? It would seem so.
Michael Leunig / Cartoonist
Imagination
Father
World
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There was all this loneliness in my cartoons and people would say, "Gee, these characters are so lonely, disconnected, depressed." And I'd say, 'Yeah well, that's not me. I'm just interested in that because I think it makes a funny drawing.' But later I understood it was me in many respects; my hand was doing it ahead of the head's understanding.
Michael Leunig / Cartoonist
Wisdom
Loneliness
Lonely
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In order to be truthful We must do more than speak the truth. We must also hear truth. We must also receive truth. We must also act upon truth. We must also search for truth. The difficult truth Within us and around us. We must devote ourselves to truth. Otherwise we are dishonest And our lives are mistaken. God grant us the strength and the courage To be truthful. Amen
Michael Leunig / Cartoonist
Honesty
Order
Truthful
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At the very simplest, I think as Van Gogh said and St Francis would have said, we must find nature. Just to be in the presence of nature your feelings and 'little seedlings' start to awake. So if we disassociate ourselves from God we cut nature out, too. More and more we turn nature into a commodity, into eco-tourism. But we must integrate it into the way people live every day.
Michael Leunig / Cartoonist
Nature
Cutting
Thinking
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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 the the soul with its myriad tiny nerve endings that notices the neglected pathos, poignancy and practicality that lies at the heart of life. It's as if the media are somehow irritated and envious that anonymous people should have the quiet brilliance of their rich and sustainable inner lives.
Michael Leunig / Cartoonist
Heart
Lying
Media
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If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by the dreary dictates of materialism and secularity, then the raw spirit truth of our native land is alive and radiant by comparison. For joy and meaning we might well turn to our natural country and witness miracles of vitality and new life, of inspiration and profound beauty; all in some humble, quiet and improbable place.
Michael Leunig / Cartoonist
Nature
Wisdom
Country
Inspiration
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