Michael Leunig Man Quotations

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.

When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and wistful way that it's a wise man that knows his own father.

Many people first encounter Jesus during childhood when they are suddenly confronted by a horrifying statue of a man nailed to a cross, and this is often a most unfortunate and repulsive beginning.

Modern man is probably a more humiliated and depressed creature than he dares to know.

Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works.

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