Michael Leunig Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“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.”

“There is some suffering that awaits us all.”

“Anzac Day, it seems, must now be done with bluster, hoopla and media hypnotism.”

“Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world.”

“Art, like religion, arises from the spirit, but alas, the formalizing of spiritual life all too often ends in hypocrisy.”

“Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage.”

“Darkness is full of possibility.”

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

“Einstein was a great advocate of the notion that good ideas look absurd at the beginning. Camus expressed a similar view.”

“Humanity hungers for the uncommon.”