Power Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin

There's no way to use power for good.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Ignorant power is a bane!

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It's not a weapon or a woman can make a man, or magery either, or any power, anything but himself.

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But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.

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Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings

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“Power inheres in a center. You're going to the center.”

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“The politics of the flesh are the roots of power.”

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The desire for power feeds off itself, growing as it devours.

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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.

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What good is power when you're too wise to use it?

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“If women had power what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who…

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“... privilege was obligation; command was service; power, the gift itself, entailed a heavy loss of freedom.”

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As a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he…

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Before the moon I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman's power, deeper than the roots of trees,…

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“As a man's knowledge grows, and his power increases, the road he takes grows ever narrower, until at last he does only…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable - but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase…

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What is a woman's power then?" she asked. "I don't think we know." "When has a woman power because she's a woman?…

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“Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light? This sorcery is not a game we play for…

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“The natural, proper, fitting shape of the novel might be that of a sack, a bag. A book holds words. Words hold…

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But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“You thought, as a boy, that a mage is one who can do anything. So I thought, once. So did we all.…

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“There is nothing you can do that profit does not enter into, and fear of loss, and wish for power. You cannot…

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It is no secret. All power is one in source and end, I think. Years and distances, stars and candles, water and…

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I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people.

— Ursula K. Le Guin