The Dispossessed
Quotes from The Dispossessed
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"You cannot own the world; you can only be part of it"Shevek Philosophy
"There is no war on Anarres"Odo Peace
"To make a gift must always be dangerous"Shevek Relationships
"The idea of individual property is poison"Odo Politics
"One cannot lose what one does not own"Shevek Philosophy
"In order to have equality, you have to give up power"Takver Justice
"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty"Shevek Life
"We are the people who refuse the chip in our brain"Shevek Freedom
"We are made whole by what we give away"Shevek Wisdom
"The wall casts the same shadow on both sides"Takver Justice
"The revolution must be perpetual or it becomes tyranny"Shevek Politics
"We trade our authentic selves for false security"Takver Truth
"The grass remembers where the wall divides it"Shevek Nature
"Patience is the virtue of the dispossessed"Takver Patience
"The future belongs to those who imagine it"Shevek Dreams
"Hope is the most radical act"Takver Hope
"To possess is to be separate"Shevek Wisdom
"A home is where one is accepted without condition"Takver Family
"Greed is the root of all separation"Shevek Philosophy
"In mathematics, as in life, elegance requires sacrifice"Shevek Knowledge
"The price of security is freedom"Takver Peace
"Sacrifice without vision is merely suffering"Shevek Courage
"The personal and the political are not divisible"Takver Politics
"The revolution eats its own children"Shevek Politics
"Solitude is the price of integrity"Takver Solitude
"Science seeks truth; society seeks power"Shevek Science
"We are all strangers in the land of possession"Shevek Philosophy
"Time flows backward in memory, forward in hope"Takver Time
"A society is only as free as its most oppressed"Shevek Justice
"The sun shines on both sides of the wall"Shevek Hope