The Dispossessed

Book · 4 characters · 405 quotes · 1974

Quotes from The Dispossessed

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