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If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself - as men have done to women, and class has done to class, and nation has done to nation - you may

If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself - as men have done to women, and class has done to class, and nation has done to nation - you may hate it or deify it; but in either case you have denied its spiritual equality and its human reality. You have made it into a thing, to which the only possible relationship is a power relationship. And thus you have fatally impoverished your own reality.

Ursula K. Le Guin
Spiritual, Respect, Hate
Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.99, Ultramarine Publishing

Hate gets going, it goes round, it gets older and tighter and older and tighter, until it holds a person inside it like a fist holds a stick.

Ursula K. Le Guin
Hate, Hatred, Sticks
Ursula K. Le Guin, Todd Barton, Margaret Chodos-Irvine, George Hersh (1985). “Always coming home”, Harperaudio

The same old hypocrisy. Life is a fight, and the strongest wins. All civilization does is hide the blood and cover up the hate with pretty words!

Ursula K. Le Guin
Hate, Fighting, Winning

What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing.

Ursula K. Le Guin
Country, Hate, What Is Love
Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.146, Penguin

Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced.

Ursula K. Le Guin
Hate, Mind, Doe
Ursula K. LeGuin (2015). “The Dispossessed”, p.130, Hachette UK

What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good thing, but one musn't make a virtue of it, or a profession...Insofar as I love life, I love [my country], but that sort of love does not have a boundary-line of hate. And beyond that, I am ignorant, I hope.

Ursula K. Le Guin
Country, Hate, Love Life

No, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression.

Ursula K. Le Guin
Hate, Mean, Expression
Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.22, Penguin

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