Ursula K. Le Guin Choices Made Quotations

Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.

A moral choice in its basic terms appears to be a choice that favors survival: a choice made in favor of life.