More Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
Hope is a slow business.
You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
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 be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.
What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.
People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.
To hear, one must be silent.
