quotes
“...wasn’t it Odo who said that where there’s property there’s theft?”
“To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws. The social Organism.”
-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (1974), Chapter 5
“But what,” Oiie said abruptly, as if the question, long kept back, burst from him under pressure, “what keeps people in order? Why don’t they rob and murder each other?”
“Nobody owns anything to rob. If you want things you take them from the depository. As for violence, well, I don’t know, Oiie; would you murder me, ordinarily? And if you felt like it, would a law against it stop you? Coercion is the least efficient means of obtaining order.”
-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (1974), Chapter 5
“To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws. The social Organism.”
-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (1974), Chapter 5
“But what,” Oiie said abruptly, as if the question, long kept back, burst from him under pressure, “what keeps people in order? Why don’t they rob and murder each other?”
“Nobody owns anything to rob. If you want things you take them from the depository. As for violence, well, I don’t know, Oiie; would you murder me, ordinarily? And if you felt like it, would a law against it stop you? Coercion is the least efficient means of obtaining order.”
-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (1974), Chapter 5
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