More Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
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.
I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people.
What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.
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 sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness.
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.
Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.
To have a choice at all is to be privileged.
No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
