Rebecca Solnit Quotes

Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live.

Rebecca Solnit

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 24, 1961

Topics

LivePeopleMeViolenceTyranny

It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.

John Buchanan Robinson

KingPeopleAccountingArmyGuilty

It's fine to have anal sex as long as you're not in high school.

Mia Kirshner

SchoolHigh SchoolLongYouSex

Tourism is the biggest industry in the world.

Martin Parr

WorldTourismIndustryBiggest

Acting and making music are quite complementary. Acting relies on someone else's writing and direction; writing music or lyrics doesn't. But they are both creative and personal in completely different ways.

Josephine de La Baume

MusicCreativeWritingDirection

From where the sun now stands I will fight no more.

Chief Joseph

FightSunNowWillMoreWhere

The world needs some excitement from fashion.

Christian Lacroix

WorldFashionExcitementNeedsSome

When I go out before a crowd, I ask God to give me inspiration to be the light.

Clarence Clemons

GodLightMeGoAskInspiration

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

Boethius

AdversityHappyWorstFortuneMisery

It is important that it - sometimes there are clashes between team-mates. We need each other to tell the truth, and this is not always a positive.

Arjen Robben

PositiveTruthImportantSometimes

My family visits the office, and we have dinner together. We do this once or twice a week.

Shervin Pishevar

FamilyTogetherDinnerWeekOffice

I love this country, but the union jack leaves me cold.

Timothy Garton Ash

LoveMeColdCountryUnionJack

So we knew their intentions were to strike in the United States. We also knew from other sources of dozens of examples of where the notion of using planes as weapons was discussed.

Richard Ben-Veniste

StrikeIntentionsUnitedWhereKnew

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