quotes
“They told Shevek with pride that the competition for scholarships to [the university] was stiffer every year, proving the essential democracy of the institution. He said, “You put another lock on the door and call it democracy.””
-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (1974), Chapter 5
“He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to somebody interminably recounting a long and stupid dream. He could not force himself to understand how banks functioned and so forth, because all the operations of capitalism were as meaningless to him as the rites of a primitive religion, as barbaric, as elaborate, and as unnecessary. In a human sacrifice to deity there might be at least a mistaken and terrible beauty; in the rites of the moneychangers, where greed, laziness, and envy were assumed to move all men’s acts, even the terrible became banal.”
-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (1974), Chapter 5
“They think if people can possess enough things they will be content to live in prison.”
-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (1974), Chapter 5
-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (1974), Chapter 5
“He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to somebody interminably recounting a long and stupid dream. He could not force himself to understand how banks functioned and so forth, because all the operations of capitalism were as meaningless to him as the rites of a primitive religion, as barbaric, as elaborate, and as unnecessary. In a human sacrifice to deity there might be at least a mistaken and terrible beauty; in the rites of the moneychangers, where greed, laziness, and envy were assumed to move all men’s acts, even the terrible became banal.”
-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (1974), Chapter 5
“They think if people can possess enough things they will be content to live in prison.”
-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (1974), Chapter 5
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