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Other Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
- What's needed in this case is conscious and serious practice in hearing, and using, and being used by, other people's voices.
- I don’t think ‘science fiction’ is a very good name for it, but it’s the name that we’ve got. It is different from other kinds…
- I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and…
- 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…
- I went to the springs while the sun was still up, and sitting on a rocky outcrop above the cave mouth I watched the light…
- Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything…
- Living in a world that is valued only as gain, an ever-expanding world-as-frontier that has no worth of its own, no fullness of its own,…
- We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to…
- Do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that…
- As a kitten does what all other kittens do, so a child wants to do what other children do, with a wanting that is as…
- And he began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name,…
- Other people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on.
- It is no secret. All power is one in source and end, I think. Years and distances, stars and candles, water and wind and wizardry,…
- Life rises out of death, death rises out of life; in being opposite they yearn to each other, they give birth to each other and…
- From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech…
- No, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate,…
- The greatest religious problem today is how to be both a mystic and a militant; in other words how to combine the search for an…
More Other Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — 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
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour