jesseebooks 's review for:

The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin

5.0

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This book. It is not an easy read but it is unquestionably worth the struggle. I want to quote the whole book. UKL is an unpeered author, in any genre.

"His gentleness was uncompromising. Because he would not complete for dominance, he was indomitable."

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"Do they expect students not to be anarchists? What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up."

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"You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere."

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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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"We don’t want purity, but complexity, the relationship of cause and effect, means and end. Our model of the cosmos must be as inexhaustible as the cosmos. A complexity that includes not only duration but creation, not only being but becoming, not only geometry but ethics. It is not the answer we are after, but only how to ask the question. . . .”