“He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to somebody interminably recounting a long and stupid dream. He could not force himself to understand how banks functioned and so forth, because all the operations of capitalism were as meaningless to him as the rites of a primitive religion, as barbaric, as elaborate, and as unnecessary. In a human sacrifice to deity there might be at least a mistaken and terrible beauty; in the rites of the moneychangers, where greed, laziness, and envy were assumed to move all men's acts, even the terrible became banal.” CapitalismEconomicsBankingBanksBankLeguin Book:The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia Source: The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
“How does one hate a country, or love one? [...] What is the sense of giving a boundary [...] of giving a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply?” Science FictionBordersHainish CyclePhilosophycalLeguin Book:The Left Hand of Darkness Source: The Left Hand of Darkness