“À cette époque, on faisait une distinction très nette entre administrer les choses et gouverner les gens. Et ils l'ont si bien faite que nous avons oublié que l'envie de dominer est aussi centrale dans les êtres humains que le désir de l'aide mutuelle, qu'il faut l'entretenir dans chaque individu, dans chaque nouvelle génération .”

Ursula K. Le Guin

Les dépossédés

En anglais : "People discriminated very carefully between administering things and governing people. They did it so well that we forgot that the will to dominance is as central in human beings as the impulse to mutual aid is, and has been trained in each individual, in each new generation. Nobody's born an Odonian any more than he's born civilized! But we've forgotten that. We don't educate for freedom. Education, the most important activity of the social organism, has become rigid, moralistic, authoritarian. Kids learn to parrot Odo's words as is the were laws – the ultimate blasphemy!"

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