Os Despojados II

• [...] from the start the Settlers were aware that that unavoidable centralization was a lasting threat, to be countered by lasting vigilance. 
  
• It is of the nature of idea to be communicated: written, spoken, done. The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.
• It is hard, however, for people who have never paid money for anything to understand the psychology of cost, the argument of the marketplace.
• You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.
• What drives people crazy is trying to live outside reality. Reality is terrible. It can kill you. Given time, it certainly will kill you. The reality is pain [...] But it’s the lies, the evasions of reality, that drive you crazy.
• The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.
• We came from a great distance to each other. We have always done so. Over great distances, over years, over abysses of chance. It is  because he comes from so far away that nothing can separate us. Nothing, no distances, no years, can be greater than the distance that's already between us, the distance of our sex, the difference of our being, our minds; that gap, that abyss which we bridge with a look, with a touch, with a word, the easiest thing in the world.
• They think if people can possess enough things they will be content to live in prison.
• Government: The legal use of power to maintain and extend power.
• The will to dominance is as central in human beings as the impulse to mutual aid is, and has to be trained in each individual, in each new generation. 
• We've made laws, laws of conventional behavior, built walls all around ourselves, and we can't see them, because they're part of our thinking. [...] Those who build walls are their own prisoners.
• You own nothing. You are free. All you have is what you are, and what you give. [...] We have no law but the single principle of mutual aid between individuals. We have no government but the single principle of free association. [...] We are sharers, not owners.  
• The principle of organic economy was too essential to the functioning of the society not to affect ethics and aesthetics profoundly. “Excess is excrement,” Odo wrote in the Analogy. “Excrement retained in the body is a poison.”
  
• You are rich, you own. We are poor, we lack. You have, we do not have. Everything is beautiful here. Only not the faces. On Anarres nothing is beautiful, nothing but the faces. The other faces, the men and women. We have nothing but that, nothing but each other. Here you see the jewels, there you see the eyes. And in the eyes you see the splendor, the splendor of the human spirit. Because our men and women are free — possessing nothing, they are free. And you the possessors are possessed. You are all in jail. Each alone, solitary, with a heap of what he owns. You live in prison, die in prison. It is all I can see in your eyes — the wall, the wall!”
  

Ursula K. LeGuin -- The dispossessed