“We are not seeking power. We are seeking the end of power! ... The means are the end. ... Only peace brings… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Odo said it all her life. 'Only peace brings peace, only just acts bring justice!” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The means are the end, only peace brings peace, only just acts bring justice...the separation of means and ends was false. For… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“My species has a great many good reasons for making war, though none of them is as good as the reason for… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“On the planet O there has not been a war for five thousand years, she read, and on Gethen there has never… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“...I wore his blood for clothing, on my legs and thighs and hands: a dry, stiff, brown garment with no warmth in it.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Aeneas' mother is a star?" "No; a goddess." I said cautiously, "Venus is the power that we invoke in spring, in the garden, when… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Meaning - this is perhaps the common note, the bane I am seeking. What is the Meaning of this book, this event in the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
For fantasy is true, of course. It isn't factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it too, and that is precisely… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“. . . chronosophy does involve ethics. Because our sense of time involves our ability to separate cause and effect, means and end. The… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“If both you and your plane are on time, the airport is merely a diffuse, short, miserable prelude to the intense, long, miserable plane… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever done. I pressed a button. It took the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
