"I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant."
― Ursula K. Le Guin
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Politics
More From Ursula K. Le Guin
- "As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope."
- "We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains."
- "I certainly wasn’t happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can’t earn, and can’t keep, and often don’t even recognize at the time; I mean joy."
More In Politics
- "Rush Limbaugh, we expect nonsense from him. But the Vatican, that’s another story. When the Vatican is so threatened that it launches attacks on nuns, well, you know what they say in politics, a hit dog hollers."― Jennifer M. Granholm
- "The London Games will be designed for the athletes and we will provide them with the very best venues and the very best conditions to pursue their sporting dreams in London."― Sebastian Coe
- "Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys are more moral than the opponents. But if you’re looking for morals in politics you’re looking for bananas in the cheese department."― Harry Shearer