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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
Written by Michael Leunig
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.
Written by Michael Leunig
There is some suffering that awaits us all.
Written by Michael Leunig
The creative act is also in a small way a suffering act - we start out with our ego, this hope of making this thing whatever it be, but so often it eludes us and it collapses and we kind of regress into this mental suffering, we can't find what we're looking for.
Written by Michael Leunig
Wars don't happen on battlefields; they go on happening in people's hearts for generations and generations, and the ecological damage is unfathomably complex and dire.
Written by Michael Leunig
Pre-Christmas is very important, and it is stressful, and, you know, even in the biblical story... travelling on the donkey in a stressful environment.
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Every child is a greedy child, I think. I mean, it's healthy to be a greedy child.
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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.
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In my adolescence, I think I felt very outcast; I felt lonely. I felt great loneliness, and sometimes I wouldn't partake in Christmas, and I would go off and wander in the streets of Melbourne.
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Sometimes a witticism has no truth behind it.
Written by Michael Leunig
I had a few ducks as a kid.
Written by Michael Leunig
If you know anything about ducks, you know a baby duck will imprint itself on you. It misses its mother.
Written by Michael Leunig
Apparently, the pathfinder duck is a psychological archetype in certain cultures.
Written by 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.
Written by Michael Leunig
Muftis and bishops should be like ripe camembert cheeses - a bit on the nose and not for the faint-hearted, but memorable!
Written by Michael Leunig
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.
Written by Michael Leunig
Humanity hungers for the uncommon.
Written by Michael Leunig
There are times when the art world seems like a religious empire. There are great cathedral galleries and pilgrimage sites where treasured art pieces are displayed like holy relics, and this can certainly be a great pleasure on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Written by Michael Leunig
Art, like religion, arises from the spirit, but alas, the formalizing of spiritual life all too often ends in hypocrisy.
Written by Michael Leunig
In contemporary art culture, where good looks and clever strategic planning of art careers have become a feature, professional practice may be taught in art schools like a branch of public relations or political science.
Written by Michael Leunig
All the world loves a young emerging artist, and sometimes it seems that all the world wants to be one - on a bad, gloomy planet, to be colourful and creative seems so promising.
Written by Michael Leunig
All good art is seditious, but the people in authority can never recognise it. I think when you mention sedition, artists are the ones whose eyes light up thinking, 'Oh, yes, I want some of that!'
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A world view is probably an expression of self.
Written by Michael Leunig
I've learned to respect the whimsical.
Written by Michael Leunig
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.
Written by Michael Leunig
I never had a spirit-breaking, soul-destroying religion drummed into me.
Written by Michael Leunig
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.
Written by Michael Leunig
The work of the artist is to express what is repressed or even to speak the unspoken grief of society.
Written by Michael Leunig
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.
Written by 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.
Written by Michael Leunig

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