Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• 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 K. Le Guin

  Wall, Nice, Thinking

• What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good thing, but one musn't make a virtue of it, or a profession...Insofar as I love life, I love [my country], but that sort of love does not have a boundary-line of hate. And beyond that, I am ignorant, I hope.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Country, Hate, Love Life

• Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth in it. We can change our life, our being; no matter what our will is, we are changed. As the moon changes yet is one, so we are virgin, wife, mother, grandmother. For all their restlessness, men are who they are; once they put on the man's toga they will not change again; so they make a virtue of that rigidity and resist whatever might soften it and set them free.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Mother, Men, Moon

  "Lavinia". Book by Ursula K. Le Guin, 2008.

• There's a point, around the age of 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.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Age, Twenties, Rest Of Your Life

• For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead Kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Kings, Men, Thinking

  "The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia". Book by Ursula K. Le Guin, May 1974.

• You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Vices, Virtue, Term

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