"The Dispossessed" Quotes
A physicist from an anarchist moon colony navigates the political and social dynamics of both his home and the capitalist planet it orbits.
science fiction | 326 pages | Published in 1974
Quotes
You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.
Freedom is never very safe.
To oppose something is to maintain it.
The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!
The power to be free to be what you want to be, to do what you love, to be who you are, is the gift of the society to its members.
Nothing, nobody is ever ready for anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now.
You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
You cannot take what you have not given, and you must give yourself. You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
The principle of the superiority of one sex over the other is no different from the principle of the superiority of one race over another.
