More Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.
Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit. The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled hope to survive. Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status.
To hear, one must be silent.
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.
Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.
To have a choice at all is to be privileged.
We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable - but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.
