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Ursula K. Le Guin on Independence Day

1929–2018 United States

← All quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin

3 quotes

What was the good working for freedom all your life and ending up without any freedom at all?

The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (1975)

The name of our beautiful reward is not profit. Its name is freedom.

No, I don’t mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression. It grows in us, that fear. It grows in us year by year.

The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ursula K. Le Guin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.