Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes about Responsibility

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Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.

Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Freedom, Responsibility, Absolute Freedom

Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.200, Ultramarine Publishing

What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Responsibility, Choices, Anarchist

URSULA K. LE GUIN (1975). “The Wind's Twelve Quarters”

Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience to the law, or disobedience followed by punishment? Would you really want to go live in a prison?

Ursula K. Le Guin

Responsibility, Law, Punishment

Ursula K. Le Guin (2009). “The Dispossessed”, p.31, Harper Collins

You cannot blame everything on the enemy.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Responsibility, Enemy, Blame

Gene Wolfe, Ursula K. Le Guin, James Tiptree (1975). “The new Atlantis and other novellas of science fiction”

The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is control. Control over behavior: power over women. Women in the anti-choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Women, Responsibility, Rights

Ursula K. Le Guin (2017). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.98, Grove Press