Ursula K. Le Guin on Success
Browse 3 quotations attributed to Ursula K. Le Guin, catalogued under success, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Ursula K. Le Guin, entry #150808: "Easy victories aren’t worth winning."
Attributed to Ursula K. Le Guin, entry #143393: "The High-Intelligence Life Forms of the planet, of which there were at least three species, all of low technological achievement, they would ignore or enslave or extirpate, whiche…"
3 Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin on Success
"Easy victories aren’t worth winning."
"The High-Intelligence Life Forms of the planet, of which there were at least three species, all of low technological achievement, they would ignore or enslave or extirpate, whichever was most convenient. For to an aggressive people only technology mattered."
"As we did without clergy, let us do without soldiers. The joy built upon successful slaughter is not the right kind of joy; it will not do; it is fearful and it is trivial. A boundless and generous contentment, a magnanimous triumph felt not against some outer enemy but in communion with the finest and fairest in the souls of all men everywhere and the splendor of the world’s summer: this is what swells the hearts of the people of Omelas, and the victory they celebrate is that of life."