What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
Weitere Zitate von Ursula K. Le Guin
Zum Autor"It's a queer business, making oneself blind."
"It is not until an act occurs within the landscape of the past and future that it is a human act. Loyalty, which asserts the continuity of past and future, binding time into a whole, is the root of human strength; there is no good to be done without it."
"Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light? This sorcery is not a game we play for pleasure or for praise. Think of this: that every word, every act of our Art is said and is done either for good, or for evil. Before you speak or do you must know the price that is to pay!"
"«I am tired,» he said. «I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever done. I pressed a button. It took the entire will power, the accumulated strength of my entire existence, to press one damned OFF button.»«You have lived well,» the Alien said."
"You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been."
"Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part."