“When we’ve agreed that something ought to be done, or not done, we get very stubborn. And when that meets up with another stubbornness, it can make a kind of war, a struggle of ideas, the only kind of war anybody ever wins.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin , book The Eye of the Heron

Source: The Eye of the Heron (1978), Chapter 3 (p. 44)

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