"I fear liars, and I fear tricksters, and worst I fear the bitter truth. And so I rule my country well. Because only fear rules men. Nothing else works...

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Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.
More Ursula K. Le Guin quotes
"We live well in the houses, well enough, but we are ruled utterly by fear. There was a time we sailed in ships between the stars. Now, we dare not go ...
"He began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: a man: who...
"They let us be, here, in the cage of our ignorance.
"In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do ...
"But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord.""It might to keep it open.