The Dispossessed (Hainish Cycle, #6)
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In feudal times the aristocracy had sent their sons to university, conferring superiority on the institution. Nowadays it was the other way round: the university conferred superiority on the man.
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You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.
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Life is a fight, and the strongest wins. All civilization does is hide the blood and cover up the hate with pretty words!”
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is hard to swear when sex is not dirty and blasphemy does not exist.
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The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.