More Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
No society can change the nature of existence. We can't prevent suffering. This pain and that pain, yes, but not Pain. A society can only relieve social suffering, unnecessary suffering. The rest remains. The root, the reality.
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.
The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there .
You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.
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.
Change is freedom, change is life. It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don't make changes, don't risk disapproval, don't upset your syndics. It's always easiest to let yourself be governed. There's a point, around age twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities. Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfil my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to go unbuild walls.
