More Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness.
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.
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.
Hope is a slow business.
The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there .
The creative adult is the child who has survived.
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
