Books, you know, they’re not just commodities. The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art—the art of words.
Weitere Zitate von Ursula K. Le Guin
Zum Autor"Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part."
"It is not until an act occurs within the landscape of the past and future that it is a human act. Loyalty, which asserts the continuity of past and future, binding time into a whole, is the root of human strength; there is no good to be done without it."
"It's a queer business, making oneself blind."
"The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women."
"«I am tired,» he said. «I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever done. I pressed a button. It took the entire will power, the accumulated strength of my entire existence, to press one damned OFF button.»«You have lived well,» the Alien said."
"You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been."