Do not speak of what men deserve. For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead Kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.
Ursula K. LeGuin
The Dispossessed, 1974
((Odo, The Prison Letters))
Ursula K. LeGuin
The Dispossessed, 1974
((Odo, The Prison Letters))
