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Man Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course…
- You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given…
- He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the…
- Reading is performance. The reader--the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the library desk--performs the…
- It did not matter, after all. He was only one man. One man's fate is not important. "If it is not, what is?" He could…
- Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and…
- As a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing,but does…
- For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we each of us…
- In general she had found that the main drawback in being a man was that conversations were less interesting.
- A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it.
- Who knows a man's name, holds that man's life in his keeping. Thus to Ged, who had lost faith in himself, Vetch had given him…
- 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…
- And he began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name,…
- It is no secret. All power is one in source and end, I think. Years and distances, stars and candles, water and wind and wizardry,…
- No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very words of Making, and…
- From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech…
- A man would know the end he goes to, but he cannot know it if he does not turn, and return to his beginning, and…
- I have told the story I was asked to tell. I have closed it, as so many stories close, with a joining of two people.…
- Anyhow they’re always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Either owning or being owned.
- Saying that, he was suddenly himself again, despite his lunatic hair and eyes: a man whose personal dignity went so deep as to be nearly…
- 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 it. Often I've…
More Man Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle