Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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• So, I get a kick out of working with the media.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Working
  • Media
  • Out

• There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.

  

  Beck
  • Song
  • Know
  • Puzzle

• All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Sin
  • Creature
  • Holy Ghost

• Bitcoin is one of the most viral concepts I've ever encountered.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • Most
  • Concepts
  • Bitcoin

• What I always say to people is dress from the feet up. If you don't normally wear colour, try some colour on your feet; it's the place, I think you can have fun and update your outfit.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • People
  • Up
  • Fun

• They have been saying for a long time that Iraq made an effort to import active uranium, and my colleague demonstrated the other day that they came to the conclusion that it was a fake document that everybody is relying upon.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Time
  • Long
  • Day

• We do not have to accept the world as we find it. And we have a responsibility to leave our world a better place and never walk by on the other side of injustice.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • World
  • Responsibility
  • Walk

• Well, honey, I had the million dollar houses, I had the car, I had the horse, I had the barn; I had everything. Was I set free? I didn't even know what that meant.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Free
  • Car
  • Horse

• I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • May
  • Want
  • Language

• I would say 'American Werewolf in London' is like an unconventional buddy movie: even if the buddy dies 20 minutes in, he still remains throughout the picture, and their partnership is one of the best things in the movie.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • American
  • Movie
  • Best

• At that moment in time when we feel like the other, we were not the person embraced, not one of the cool kids, not in the club - when you're that person, it makes you feel smaller, and when they persecute you as a result, that's a difficult position to be in.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Cool

• Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.

  

  Questlove
  • Art
  • Business
  • Hip Hop

• What I wish more than anything is that I could start getting press about my work as an actor. That is what I do. I'm not a criminal.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Work
  • Wish
  • Start

• I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.

  

  Barbara Cook
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Thought

• I left home when I was just 17, finished up high school, and went to work.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Up
  • Work
  • School

• Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Poetry
  • Actor
  • Writer

• The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Mind
  • Class
  • Then

• Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Life
  • Thing
  • Vanity

• I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • History
  • Jesus
  • Nazareth

• One of the great things about being ignorant is that I often think my ideas are original. It's a wonderful feeling. That's why I try to avoid any knowledge that would spoil the sensation. Sometimes it isn't easy. People keep hurling knowledge at me, and I can't always duck.

  

  Scott Adams
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• When you see a 14-year-old boy who has never known what peace looks like for a day in his life, there's part of you as a human being that feels some degree, you can say, compassion for the fact that these boys have known war, famine, violence and death from the day they were born.

  

  Amanda Lindhout
  • Life
  • War
  • Death

• Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Responsibility
  • Humanity
  • Violence

• An act of violence against any innocent person eludes moral justification, disgraces the millions of Americans and people throughout the world who have united in peaceful protest against police brutality, and dishonors our proud inheritance of nonviolent resistance.

  

  Benjamin Crump
  • Violence
  • Resistance
  • Justification

• The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Violence
  • Acceptance