Blasphemy Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin Download Open image “It is hard to swear when sex is not dirty and blasphemy does not exist.” — Ursula K. Le Guin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Blasphemy Dirty Dirty Blasphemy Doe Hard Hard Swear Sex Swear Swear Sex Swearing
Of all the strange 'crimes' that human beings have legislated out of nothing, 'blasphemy' is the most amazing -- with 'obscenity' and 'indecent exposure'… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment. — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
How did sex come to be thought of as dirty in the first place? God must have been a Republican. — Will Durst Copy Share Image
“I swear over everything from being woken up in the middle of the night to realizing I’ve left the wet clothes in the washer… — Andrea J. Buchanan Copy Share Image
“...I wore his blood for clothing, on my legs and thighs and hands: a dry, stiff, brown garment with no warmth in it.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Aeneas' mother is a star?" "No; a goddess." I said cautiously, "Venus is the power that we invoke in spring, in the garden, when… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Meaning - this is perhaps the common note, the bane I am seeking. What is the Meaning of this book, this event in the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
For fantasy is true, of course. It isn't factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it too, and that is precisely… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“. . . chronosophy does involve ethics. Because our sense of time involves our ability to separate cause and effect, means and end. The… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“If both you and your plane are on time, the airport is merely a diffuse, short, miserable prelude to the intense, long, miserable plane… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever done. I pressed a button. It took the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Oh where is the noble face of modesty, or the strength of virtue, now that blasphemy is in power and men have put justice… — Euripides Copy Share Image
Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State). — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The book called the Bible has been voted by men, and decreed by human laws to be the word of God; and the disbelief… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“They're power-hungry, the mundane said of the magical people. They're immoral, people said, and they're scary. Playing with the dark arts could plunge me… — Christine Wicker Copy Share Image
Political correctness is a major defect of the western ethos. Some Western countries have even passed blasphemy laws that would put you in legal… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
As George Bernard Shaw observed: "All great truths begin as blasphemies." Yet I have to say, the idea that there is intelligent life elsewhere… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
The most important truths always appear first as blasphemies or obscenities. That's why every great innovator is persecuted. And the sacraments look obscene, too,… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Now 'South Park' - they are interested in blasphemy. They're interested in creating offence for its own sake. — David Baddiel Copy Share Image
We cannot assume the injustice of any actions which only create offense, and especially as regards religion and morals. He who utters or does… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
You keep accusing me of blasphemy all of the time, but I cannot be convicted of a victimless crime. — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
They say moses split the red sea, I split a blunt and roll a fat one when I'm deadly. blasphemy — 2pac Copy Share Image
