Oana

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Oana.


The Courage to Be...
Rate this book
Clear rating

progress: 
 
  (page 110 of 288)
Nov 05, 2021 07:50AM

 
100 Ideas that Ch...
Oana is currently reading
by Jim Boulton (Goodreads Author)
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

progress: 
 
  (page 10 of 216)
Oct 03, 2021 01:14PM

 
Drive: The Surpri...
Oana is currently reading
by Daniel H. Pink (Goodreads Author)
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

progress: 
 
  (page 10 of 242)
Oct 03, 2021 01:14PM

 
See all 5 books that Oana is reading…
Loading...
Ursula K. Le Guin
“You cannot take what you have not given, and you must give yourself. 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.”
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

Ursula K. Le Guin
“The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.”
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

Ursula K. Le Guin
“Change is freedom, change is life.

It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don't make changes, don't risk disapproval, don't upset your syndics. It's always easiest to let yourself be governed.

There's a point, around age twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.

Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfil my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to go unbuild walls.”
Ursula Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

Ursula K. Le Guin
“Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.”
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

Ursula K. Le Guin
“We have nothing but our freedom. We have nothing to give you but your own freedom. We have no law but the single principle of mutual aid between individuals. We have no government but the single principle of free association. We have no states, no nations, no presidents, no premiers, no chiefs, no generals, no bosses, no bankers, no landlords, no wages, no charity, no police, no soldiers, no wars. Nor do we have much else. We are sharers, not owners. We are not prosperous. None of us is rich. None of us is powerful. If it is Anarres you want, if it is the future you seek, then I tell you that you must come to it with empty hands. You must come to it alone, and naked, as the child comes into the world, into his future, without any past, without any property, wholly dependent on other people for his life. You cannot take what you have not given, and you must give yourself. 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.”
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

year in books
Geri
245 books | 42 friends

Flavius
134 books | 122 friends

Diana-Oana
158 books | 114 friends

Cora
4,302 books | 443 friends

Arina
270 books | 129 friends

Pippa
1,002 books | 8 friends

cristia...
51 books | 194 friends

Simina
1,324 books | 234 friends

More friends…

Favorite Genres



Polls voted on by Oana

Lists liked by Oana