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Michael Leunig
Michael Leunig
Australian Cartoonist
Born: Jun 2, 1945
Great Life Me People World You
Related authors: Bil Keane Bill Watterson Caroll Spinney Charles M. Schulz Gary Larson Matt Groening Scott Adams Walt Disney
The hypocrisy of some is that we like to think of ourselves as sophisticated and evolved, but we're still also driven by primal urges like greed and power. Michael Leunig
Hypocrisy Power Greed Think Ourselves Evolved Some Driven Primal Like Sophisticated Also Still Urges
Democracy just isn't working any more; without sanity at its heart, it is becoming a most unique and fiendish tyranny. Michael Leunig
Democracy Heart Tyranny More Most Without Becoming Any Just Working Sanity Unique
Humans are nervous, touchy creatures and can be easily offended. Many are deeply insecure. They become focused and energized by taking offence; it makes them feel meaningful and alive. Michael Leunig
Offended Nervous Become Alive Easily Focused Insecure Touchy Taking Feel Makes Offence Them Meaningful Many Creatures Deeply Humans
The insatiable need for heartless power and ruthless control is the telltale sign of an uninitiated man - the most irresponsible, incompetent and destructive force on earth. Michael Leunig
Man Power Control Earth Sign Insatiable Destructive Ruthless Most Force Heartless Irresponsible Incompetent Need
Easter is reflecting upon suffering for one thing, but it also reflects upon Jesus and his non compliance in the face of great authority where he holds to his truth - so there's two stories there. Michael Leunig
Truth Great Suffering Face Compliance Easter One Thing He Also His Reflecting Reflects Authority Where Stories Holds Thing Jesus Two
If you know anything about ducks, you know a baby duck will imprint itself on you. It misses its mother. Michael Leunig
You Mother Will Baby About Misses Know Duck Ducks Itself Imprint Anything
Like normal people, leftists now have to get up in the morning and earn a living, seeing as the fascists have come down so hard on social welfare fraud, and this is the cruel reality. The good old days are gone, and increasingly, leftists are to be found working in ordinary, proper jobs. Michael Leunig
Good Morning Reality People Welfare Old Gone Down Living Earn Increasingly Jobs Fraud Good Old Days Seeing Proper Cruel Days Come Like Normal Normal People Up Get Ordinary Old Days Social Working Hard Fascists Social Welfare Found Now
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
Big Down Both Had Share Concept None Falling Subject Very Escapes Us Downfall
Easter is not limited to the passion and death of Christ; it also includes the dismal tragedy of life unlived by the many, and all the loss of passion and truth that goes with it. Michael Leunig
Life Death Truth Passion Christ Easter Also Limited Loss Tragedy Goes Dismal Many
If the nose has become a deeply disillusioned and grief-stricken organ in the modern world, then what of the ear? The poor little ear - such an innocent, intelligent and sensitive creature; in these times of such flagrant sonic brutality, the sense within the ear has much to contend with. Michael Leunig
World Innocent Become Sense Organ Brutality Sonic Contend Within Intelligent Times Flagrant Modern Nose Disillusioned Modern World Sensitive Little Poor Then Much Creature Deeply Ear
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
God Easter All-Powerful He Failed Fails Like Most His Human Jesus Humans
Pursuit is a rather desperate act in itself. There's something kind of frantic about the notion of pursuit. Michael Leunig
Desperate Frantic Kind About Something Rather Something Kind Pursuit Itself Act Notion
For 13 years, I struggled with education and have only just realised that I was actually struggling to protect myself from it. I was trying to protect my soul. Michael Leunig
Education Myself Soul Only My Soul Struggled Struggling Protect Years Trying Just Realised Actually
Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works. Michael Leunig
Art Man Sadness Young Philosophy Unavoidable Poetry Tender Like Were Existential Just Young Man Meat Works
Meat workers may have been looked down upon socially, but at least they were well-paid and were a fit and lively bunch as a result of hard, honest physical work. Michael Leunig
Work Result Down Physical Looked Least Were Been Fit Bunch May Workers Hard Meat Lively Socially Honest
The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant. Michael Leunig
War Poignant Disasters Infinitely
I have sometimes done cartoons that are hurtful to people - immature, spiteful stuff. Some are so self-indulgent, and some have just failed. I look back and sometimes cringe. But one regret as I get older is that I haven't been radical and wild enough. Michael Leunig
People Regret Sometimes Radical Older Enough Wild Back Immature Cringe Hurtful Cartoons Some Spiteful Failed Stuff Look Self-Indulgent Been Get Done Just
A street full of electric light is a sign of civic failure and is an insulting injury to the soul. Shutting out the night is as disastrous as shutting out the light. Michael Leunig
Failure Soul Light Sign Out Civic Disastrous Insulting Full Electric Electric Light Injury Street Shutting Night
We may lose our memory as we get older, but this might not be such a bad thing - who wants to drag a mental junkyard around at a time of life when you're starting to grow interesting little wings? Michael Leunig
Life Time You Memory Lose Older Our Bad Mental Wings Bad Thing Around Get May Wants Interesting Little Might Who Grow Thing Drag Starting
In some ways, calm bodily protest has a nakedness to it that may be deeply embarrassing for observers; an act not unlike the bare-faced Oliver Twist effrontery that stands vulnerably before authority, asking for more or better. Michael Leunig
Better Calm Before Unlike Ways Embarrassing Some More Observers Protest Authority May Asking Bodily Act Stands Deeply Oliver Twist
Fogs are like dreams that feed the soul, and without their mysterious embrace, childhood, courtship, poetry and the composition of music become all the more difficult. Michael Leunig
Music Dreams Soul Become Difficult Embrace Composition More Poetry Mysterious Feed Like Without Courtship Childhood
There is a central flaw in contemporary culture and a corresponding and related inability to address it. Society seems somehow unable to adequately help or protect itself. Normal citizens feel powerless, isolated and disturbed. Michael Leunig
Culture Society Related Address Adequately Unable Citizens Corresponding Disturbed Somehow Seems Feel Contemporary Powerless Protect Isolated Normal Itself Central Inability Flaw Help
In the modern world, it may be that a living father can only be half a father to a boy - the dead father is the other vital half: the half that grows the boy up once and for all. Michael Leunig
World Father Half Living Other Once Vital Only Dead Boy Up Modern May Modern World Grows
Modern man is probably a more humiliated and depressed creature than he dares to know. Michael Leunig
Man Humiliated Dares More He Know Than Modern Modern Man Depressed Creature
Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage. Michael Leunig
Silence Man Clever Moral He Advantage Empty Modern Modern Man Conscience Thinks
I am probably not alone in sensing above me the huge corporations and monstrous banks, science, politics and technologies, spy satellites and stock markets, military systems and massive wealth - forces and dynamics I don't understand or can hardly imagine. Michael Leunig
Politics Alone Me Science Wealth Military Monstrous Corporations Markets Systems Above Massive Forces Understand Am Huge Spy Stock Banks Dynamics Sensing Satellites Hardly Technologies Imagine
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