Men Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin

A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

A man who saw a miracle would reject his eyes' witness, if those with him saw nothing.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

It's not a weapon or a woman can make a man, or magery either, or any power, anything but himself.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I'd rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

No matter how intelligent a man is, he can't see what he doesn't know how to see.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Men who fight wars in winter don't live till spring.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord." "It might to keep it open.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

One man may as easily destroy, as govern: be King or Anti-King.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“If women had power what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Who knows a man's name, holds that man's life in his keeping. Thus to Ged, who had lost faith in himself, Vetch…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism.…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

It did not matter, after all. He was only one man. One man's fate is not important. "If it is not, what…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

It is hard, I found, to be called traitor. Strange how hard it is, for it's an easy name to call another…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

As a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

A man would know the end he goes to, but he cannot know it if he does not turn, and return to…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The backside of heroism is often rather sad; women and servants know that. They know also that the heroism may be no…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Do you see, Arren, how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws,…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

After a long time spent learning how to write as a woman instead of as an honorary man, I was able to…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Saying that, he was suddenly himself again, despite his lunatic hair and eyes: a man whose personal dignity went so deep as…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Reading is performance. The reader--the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel.…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other--outside, below, underneath, subservient. I own, I use, I…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I suppose the most important thing, the heaviest single factor in one's life, is whether one's born male or female. In most…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

A panda walks into a tea room and ordered a salad and ate it. Then it pulled out a pistol, shot the…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

It is no secret. All power is one in source and end, I think. Years and distances, stars and candles, water and…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

If women had power, what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

No matter how successful, beloved, influential her work was, when a woman author dies, nine times out of ten, she gets dropped…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

What's wrong with men?" Tenar inquired cautiously. As cautiously, lowering her voice, Moss replied, "I don't know, my dearie. I've thought on…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

It was men's ambitions, they said, that had perverted all the arts to ends of gain.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

All men were alien one to another, at times, not only aliens.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

A man who doesn't detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very words…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Anyhow they’re always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Either owning or being owned.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

In general she had found that the main drawback in being a man was that conversations were less interesting.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

What good is music? None ... and that is the point. To the world and its states and armies and factories and…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

And he began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with…

— Ursula K. Le Guin