Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes About Violence

Quotes about: Violence

• 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, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Earth Day, World, Ruins

• 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

  Acceptance, Land, Violence

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.103, Grove Press

• The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours. Exploiting the apocalypse, selling the holocaust, is a pornography. For the ultimate selling job on ultimate violence one must read those works of fiction issued by our government as manuals of civil defense, in which you learn that there's nothing to be afraid of if you've stockpiled lots of dried fruit.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Jobs, Business, Acceptance

• It was easy to share when there was enough, even barely enough, to go round. But when there was not enough? Then force entered in; might making right; power, and its tool, violence, and its most devoted ally, the averted eye.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Eye, Allies, Tools

  "The Dispossessed". Book by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1974.

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