Takver

Character in The Dispossessed From: The Dispossessed

Shevek's partner and fellow anarchist, voice of emotional wisdom

127 quotes

"Courage is the willingness to be wrong"
Courage
"Understanding requires empathy"
Kindness
"Dreams require action to manifest"
Dreams
"Power corrupts even noble intentions"
Power
"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often"
Wisdom
"Love is the only door out of the dark"
Love
"The bond between us is real and will endure"
Relationships
"Solitude is not isolation but communion"
Solitude
"The world is as it is, and so one takes it"
"You cannot take what is not given"
Kindness
"In a just society, no one labors more than anyone else"
Justice
"To understand another world, one must leave one's own"
Knowledge
"Patience is not passive; it is deliberate choice"
Patience
"Gratitude is the only appropriate response to existence"
Gratitude
"To change the world, one must first understand it"
Change
"Knowledge shared multiplies; knowledge hoarded dies"
Education
"The personal is inescapably political"
Politics
"The people are the revolution."
Politics
"The greatest scholars are those who learned humility."
Knowledge
"Love is the only answer to loneliness."
Love
"To love is to be vulnerable."
Love
"Responsibility is what makes us human."
Wisdom
"Suffering is the condition on which we live"
Wisdom
"Fear and growth live side by side"
Courage
"Walls are unnecessary when there are no thieves"
Peace
"To be silent is to be complicit"
Justice
"Strength lies not in domination but in understanding"
Strength
"Creativity flows from the freedom to imagine"
Creativity
"Art is resistance against conformity"
Art
"Connection is the antidote to isolation"
Relationships