Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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• It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

  

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• The political world is a dark place. If you want to portray it accurately, authentically, you've got to turn out the lights from time to time.

  

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• Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.

  

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• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

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• I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't live by those laws.

  

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• I believe we are created in the image of God for a particular purpose, and I believe that with all my heart.

  

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• Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.

  

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• Me, it was always about being able to bounce around to where I wanna be. Like, with 'Arular,' people always say it's so political, but I think 50 per cent of the album is not very political at all. It's just really a shouty, shouty girl thing.

  

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• Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

  

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• God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.

  

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• When your maturity is derived from circumstantial factors other than faith, your level of maturity would continue to fluctuate rather than being stable. This is why I am enabled to maintain a balance and stable approach to the challenges that come my way every day. I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God.

  

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• Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.

  

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• When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

  

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• One of the strangest experiences one can have is to sleep on stage, as I once did in Sydney when I'd lost the key to my flat. I had to stay at night in a bed, which conveniently was on stage because my character Sandy Stone did his monologue from a bed. To wake up looking at a shadowy auditorium is a very peculiar feeling.

  

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• Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • God
  • Political