Hannah Ferguson

“Thought experiment number six: How does a society that values equality above all else deal with exceptional talents, exceptional abilities? How is personal achievement to be balanced with societal obligations? How is freedom to be balanced with order?”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

“When The Dispossessed was first published, the community on Anarres was about the age of the American experiment I live inside. Now the American experiment is older and like Anarres, faults and failures are showing. Without a serious, insistent recommitment to the idea that no man is above the law, we will soon see the experiment end. No man is above the law. This, the most fundamental, foundational American doctrine, has been clearly shown to be untrue in practice and is now even contested in principle. Among the judges who sit in the highest court of the nation are some who have their doubts. We are not as finished with the divine right of kings as we had hoped.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

“The tenderness and vitality of the colors, the mixture of rectilinear human design and powerful, proliferate natural contours, the variety and harmony of the elements, gave an impression of complex wholeness such as he had never seen, except, perhaps, foreshadowed on a small scale in certain serene and thoughtful human faces.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

“But as surely as the future becomes the past, the past becomes the future.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed