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 Read Quote
Life seems sadly mishandled by humans, as if it’s all too much for them – they spend so much time and energy hurting each other, making things worse, and fouling their own nest, all because they imagine things aren’t good enough and should be made much better. Michael Leunig Read Quote
Today, people call each other ‘guys’ – this derives from Guy Fawkes, the bomb-making terrorist. No greater tribute has ever been paid to anyone in the history of politics. Michael Leunig Read Quote
Anzac Day, it seems, must now be done with bluster, hoopla and media hypnotism. Michael Leunig Read Quote
When people talk about their God, it is difficult to know what they actually mean, and when people talk about their atheism, it is usually incomprehensible also. Michael Leunig Read Quote
So few humans seem to fully exist themselves that I wonder if all this endless speculation and haggling about God is really an exploration of a more interesting and embarrassing question about ourselves. Michael Leunig Read Quote
Sanity is surely not about normality in the statistical sense: it is about an eternal and natural idea of the healthy personality – which indeed may be a rare achievement. Michael Leunig Read Quote
Democracy just isn’t working any more; without sanity at its heart, it is becoming a most unique and fiendish tyranny. Michael Leunig Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Murk can be described as an enfeebled fog with a personality disorder; it is more troubled than ethereal, sulking moodily over our lives at the end of the day. Michael Leunig Read Quote
