Quotes from Ursula K. LeGuin

You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.

Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.

To oppose something is to maintain it.

Almost anything carried to its logical extreme becomes depressing, if not carcinogenic.

The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there- you build yourself. Those are the high ones, the thick ones, the ones with no doors in.

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

A person who believes ... 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.

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces what they want is control. Control over behavior power over women. Women in the anti-choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities.

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

When action grows unprofitable, gather information when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.