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More Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
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.
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.
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.
Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.
When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
