The Dispossessed: A Novel (Hainish Cycle, #6)

by Ursula K. Le Guin

It is hard, however, for people who have never paid money for anything to understand the psychology of cost, the argument of the marketplace. Seven generations of peace had not brought trust.

Surely freedom lay rather in openness than in secrecy, and freedom is always worth the risk.

All the people in all the shops were either buyers or sellers. They had no relation to the things but that of possession.

What is idealistic about social cooperation, mutual aid, when it is the only means of staying alive?”

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

Life is a fight, and the strongest wins. All civilization does is hide the blood and cover up the hate with pretty words!”

We fear our neighbor’s opinion more than we respect our own freedom of choice.

If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.