Freedom Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin

Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Alone, no one wins freedom.

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As a writer, you are free.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“The direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is ‘escapism’ an accusation of?”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“They preserved autonomy of conscience even at the cost of becoming eccentric.”

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“You have nothing. You posses nothing. You own nothing. You are free. All you have is what you are, and what you…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

See, the thing is, as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“... privilege was obligation; command was service; power, the gift itself, entailed a heavy loss of freedom.”

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Crankish attacks on the freedom to read are common at present. When backed and coordinated by organized groups, they become sinister.

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I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine…

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I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we…

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“A dark hand had let go its lifelong hold upon her heart. But she did not feel joy, as she had in…

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“I only ask your help, for which I have nothing to give in return." "Nothing? You call your theory nothing" "Weigh it…

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Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false…

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“Writing about our life in the House of Arcamand in the City State of Etra, I fall back into it and see…

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“What she had begun to learn was the weight of liberty. Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for…

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“So he worked. He lost weight; he walked light on the earth. Lack of physical labor, lack of variety of occupation, lack…

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A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their…

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“It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate…

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“The one thing a writer has to have is a pencil and some paper. That's enough, so long as she knows that…

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“Because there is nothing, nothing on Urras that we Anarresti need! We left with empty hands, a hundred and seventy years ago,…

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“It's your nature to be Tirin, and my nature to be Shevek, and our common nature to be Odonians, responsible to one…

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as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“There is nothing you can do that profit does not enter into, and fear of loss, and wish for power. You cannot…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“We have nothing but our freedom. We have nothing to give you but your own freedom. We have no law but the…

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And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid…

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“I think… most women marry to get their freedom." "Then they want less than I do. There’s something inside me, in my…

— Ursula K. Le Guin