The Dispossessed
Quotes from The Dispossessed
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"Every choice forecloses infinite other possibilities"Shevek Wisdom
"The personal is inescapably political"Takver Politics
"Art exists where rules are understood and transcended"Shevek Art
"Knowledge shared multiplies; knowledge hoarded dies"Takver Education
"Fear is the price of freedom"Shevek Fear
"The greatest strength is admitting weakness"Shevek Strength
"To change the world, one must first understand it"Takver Change
"Loneliness and solitude are not the same thing"Shevek Solitude
"Work without purpose is merely servitude"Shevek Work
"Gratitude is the only appropriate response to existence"Takver Gratitude
"The mind must be free before the body can be"Shevek Freedom
"Technology serves the system that creates it"Shevek Technology
"Patience is not passive; it is deliberate choice"Takver Patience
"The family is a microcosm of society"Shevek Family
"To understand another world, one must leave one's own"Takver Knowledge
"An idea cannot be owned or hoarded"Shevek Creativity
"The price of order is eternal vigilance"Shevek Politics
"We do not own the future; we merely inherit it"Shevek Philosophy
"Science demands honesty above all things"Shevek Science
"In a just society, no one labors more than anyone else"Takver Justice
"Time is the one thing we cannot manufacture"Shevek Time
"One cannot truly know a society from within it"Shevek Knowledge
"Suffering teaches; joy does not"Shevek Wisdom
"Love is as fundamental as physics"Shevek Love
"The system is not the solution, it is the problem"Shevek Politics
"You cannot take what is not given"Takver Kindness
"Fear and greed are the engines of the capitalist economy"Shevek Politics
"A man who can't see the ambiguity of his position is in trouble"Shevek Philosophy
"The world is as it is, and so one takes it"Takver
"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often"Shevek Wisdom