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Most Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
- To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.
- Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with, not the social-Darwinist economic 'libertarianism' of the…
- Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves,…
- The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most…
- While we read a novel, we are insane—bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices... Sanity returns (in…
- I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.…
- Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.
- I suppose the most important thing, the heaviest single factor in one's life, is whether one's born male or female. In most societies it determines…
- Anyhow they’re always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Either owning or being owned.
- What children don't understand, and can't understand until they grow up some, is how much the whole fabric and process of human society depends on…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster