Ursula K. Le Guin

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#politics #anarchism

You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#change

To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#mind #religion #spirit #faith

Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#writing #science

I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#science-fiction #imagination

She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#life #death

In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#helplessness #loss #religion #religion

It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#fantasy #inspirational #magic #inspirational

A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#science #truth #art

But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord." "It might to keep it open. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#diplomacy #fear #power #men