I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.
URSULA K. LE GUINIf you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart.
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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It doesn’t have to be plugged in, activated, or performed by a machine; all it needs is light, a human eye, and a human mind. It is not one of a kind, and it is not ephemeral. It lasts. It is reliable.
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My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died.
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Those who build walls are their own prisoners.
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Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country.
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Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
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A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.
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Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.
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We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.
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Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.
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The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women.
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Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk’s flight on the empty sky.
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
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To have a choice at all is to be privileged.
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