Guin Quotes

Guin Quote of the day

A man who doesn’t detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government in earth, it would be a great joy to serve it.

I say we have no time for debate. Indeed, we have no need for it, since the decision has been made for us. We must fight. There is no other path!

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool

Science fiction is not prescriptive

This was the way he had to go

All that grieved me - that I was half one thing and half another and nothing wholly - was the sorrow of my childhood, but the strength and use of my life after I grew up.

The imagination is truly the enemy of bigotry and dogma.

For a while, my self-control and my power of reason quailed to uselessness.

A story that has nothing but action and plot is a pretty poor affair

We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them

I do not care what comes after

A weapon is merely a weapon, nothing more. What matters is how you use it.