Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

Our wealth is rewarded directly in proportion to the number of people with whom we are willing to share.

Thanks to the social web, we can share and trade to use a whole universe of things we once had to buy ourselves. From cars to solar panels, people are realizing they can reap the benefits of ownership without the expense and hassle of buying.

As people's access to the internet grows we're seeing the sharing economy boom - I think our obsession with ownership is at a tipping point and the sharing economy is part of the antidote for that.

Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property.

The fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to none.

Nature offers nothing that can be called this man's rather than another’s, but under nature everything belongs to all

The land on which the cattle grazed was communal property. It was owned by no one. It was nobody's private farm. It was the common property of the people, shared by the people. So the practice of sharing was central to the concept of ownership of property.

Not to share one’s goods with the poor is to rob them and to deprive them of life. It is not our goods that we possess, but theirs.

Share and enjoy the fruits of this planet.

People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.

We have to move from the unbridled pursuit of self-gain at the expense of others to recovering appreciation for what we gain by caring and sharing with one another.

I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.

The right to private property is inconceivable without responsibilities to the common good.

…mortals cannot cherish what is private without injury to the community…to the extent that we call anything our own it absorbs our affections and diverts them from the service of the common good.

Anything which dominates the life of the community should be owned by the community.

We must learn for the sake of one another to make better choices guided by more holistic measures of the common good we share.

I think that the idea of sharing is something that has been lost in our social conscience, and we need to re-think that. We need to learn a new way.

A rich and diverse commons lowers the cost of living for those who use it. And throughout history, it has been those on low incomes who gain most from the commons.

It's time to put back on the agenda the importance of public ownership and public good, the value of working together collaboratively, not in competition.

Philanthropy is all about sharing. If there's an opportunity to collaborate, we will. Collaborating just for finance is pointless. It has to be like a business collaboration.

A capitalistic kibbutz is not a bad idea. You need both.

What distinguishes a commons is that it is not private property, does not have a price, and is oriented towards 'use value' rather than 'exchange value.' It does not exist to generate profits.

When I talk about 'everyday communism', I am teasing a little. It is a provocative idea. But then we all do a lot of sharing a lot of the time. We don't draw up contracts for everything.