Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light? This sorcery is not a game we play for pleasure or for praise. Think of this: that every word, every act of our Art is said and is done either for good, or for evil. Before you speak or do you must know the price that is to pay!
Weitere Zitate von Ursula K. Le Guin
Zum Autor"Age and illness made one a dualist."
"It's a queer business, making oneself blind."
"What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice."
"The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women."
"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."
"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."