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Human Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Love is the true condition of human life.
- Her work, I really think her work is finding what her real work is and doing it, her work, her own work, her being human,…
- We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable - but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and…
- What she needs, at least one thing she needs, is companionship. After all why should she eat? Who needs her to be alive? What we…
- Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings
- If we can get that realistic feminine morality working for us, if we can trust ourselves and so let women think and feel that an…
- Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing -- instead of around, and down? What…
- The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very…
- My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
- We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
- As a kitten does what all other kittens do, so a child wants to do what other children do, with a wanting that is as…
- The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most…
- I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.…
- It is a terrible thing, this kindess that human beings do not lose. Terrible, because when we are finally naked in the dark and cold,…
- A man wants his virility regarded. A woman wants her femininity appreciated, however indirect and subtle the indications of regard and appreciation. [Here] one is…
- A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing…
- My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left,…
- What you select from, in order to tell your story, is nothing less than everything. What you build up your world from, your local, intelligible…
- What children don't understand, and can't understand until they grow up some, is how much the whole fabric and process of human society depends on…
More Human Quotes
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong