He had been taught as a child that Urras was a festering mass of inequity, iniquity, and waste. But all the people he met, and all the people he saw, in the smallest country village, were well dressed, well fed, and contrary to his expectations, industrious. They did not stand about sullenly waiting to be ordered to do things. Just like Anaresti, they were simply busy getting things done. It puzzled him. He had assumed that if you removed a human being's natural incentive to work -- his initiative, his spontaneous creative energy -- and replaced it with external motivation and coercion, he would become a lazy and careless worker. But no careless workers kept those lovely farmlands, or made the superb cars and comfortable trains. The lure and compulsion of profit was evidently a much more effective replacement of the natural initiative than he had been led to believe.
Ursula K. Le GuinMots clés capitalism inequity initiative profit iniquity
The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
Ursula K. Le GuinWe're in the world, not against it. It doesn't work to try to stand
outside things and run them, that way. It just doesn't work, it goes against life. There is a way but you have to follow it. The world is, no matter how we think it ought to be. You have to be with it. You have to let it be.
It was more than dignity. Integrity? Wholeness? Like a block of wood not carved. The infinite possibility, the unlimited and unqualified wholeness of being of the uncommitted, the nonacting, the uncarved: the being who, being nothing but himself, is everything.
Ursula K. Le GuinA person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.
Ursula K. Le GuinYou have to help another person. But it's not right to play God with masses of people. To be God you have to know what you're doing. And to do any good at all, just believing you're right and your motives are good isn't enough.
Ursula K. Le GuinSure, it's simple writing for kids…just as simple as bringing them up.
Ursula K. Le Guin...Vermediğimiz şeyi alamazsınız, kendinizi vermeniz gerekir. Devrim'i satın alamazsınız. Devrim'i yapamazsınız. Devrim olabilirsiniz ancak. Devrim ya ruhunuzdadır ya da hiç bir yerde değildir.
Ursula K. Le GuinWe strike a medium, and he shivers in his bag, while I swelter in mine, but considering from what distances we have come together, we do well enough.
Ursula K. Le GuinIn so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
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