I suspect that the distinction between a maternal and a paternal instinct is scarcely worth making; the parental instinct, the wish to protect, to further, is not a sex-linked characteristic…
I like men very much, but sometimes ... they're so stupid, so stuffed with theories .... They go in straight lines only, and won't stop. It's dangerous to do that. It's dangerous to leave everything u...
I have told the story I was asked to tell. I have closed it, as so many stories close, with a joining of two people. What is one man's and one woman's love and desire, against the history of two world...
Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it.
Felicidade tem a ver com a razão, só pode ser conquistada pela razão. O que ganhei foi uma coisa que não se pode conquistar, não se pode manter e, muitas vezes, não se pode nem reconhecer no momento;...
Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.
Bright fame, bright glory will crown Lavinia. But she brings her people war.
Bir hırsız yaratmak için bir sahip yaratın; suç yaratmak istiyorsanız, yasalar koyun.
You play the instrument you have.
Privilege was obligation; command was service; power, the gift itself, entailed a heavy loss of freedom.
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other--outside, below, underneath, subservient. I own, I use, I explore, I exploit, I control. What I do is what matters. What I want is wha...
…what I told them was 'a poem,' a thing made by a maker, a work of art, part history of long ago, part invention.
— Ние се крием от шингите. Но се крием също и от онова, което сме били. Разбираш ли ме, Фалк? Живеем добре в нашите Къщи — достатъчно добре. Но позволяваме да ни управлява страхът. Било е време, когат...
Without war there are no heroes.What harm would that be?Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is.
To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.
Those who build walls are their own prisoners.
This concern, feebly called 'love of nature', seemed to Shevek to be something much broader than love. There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the u...
They all know it is there, all the people of Omelas. Some of them have come to see it, others are content merely to know it is there. They all know that it has to be there. Some of them understand why...
There is nothing you can do that profit does not enter into, and fear of loss, and wish for power. You cannot say good morning without knowing which of you is 'superior' to the other, or trying to pro...