Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes about Evil

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Animals do neither good nor evil. They do as they must do.We may call what they do harmful or useful, but good and evil belong to us, who chose to choose what we do. [. . .] The animals need only be and do.We're yoked,

Animals do neither good nor evil. They do as they must do.We may call what they do harmful or useful, but good and evil belong to us, who chose to choose what we do. [. . .] The animals need only be and do.We're yoked, and they're free. So to be with an animal is to know a little freedom.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Animal, Evil, Needs

It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Evil, Soul, Ged

Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “A Wizard of Earthsea”, p.141, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard's power of Changing and Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power...It must follow knowledge, and serve need.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Evil, Balance, Needs

A Wizard of Earthsea ch. 3 (1968)