Orson Scott Card Quotes

You really are children. You have no idea how power works, or who has it, or what you can actually do with it.

Orson Scott Card

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• Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Children
  • Telling

• I couldn't have children, so that's the bad side. But compared to everything else I have, it's not all that terribly bad. I count my winners rather than my losers.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Children
  • Bad
  • Winners

• Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Children
  • Today
  • inspirational

• It's scary to become a woman in this world. We have to understand that some of the messages we get, messages that we are not enough, are there to keep our power in check. We can't buy into these messages.

  

  Francesca Lia Block
  • World
  • Power
  • Woman

• As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Power

• The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Power
  • Never
  • Mysterious

• Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Power
  • Labor

• If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Power
  • Want
  • Stronger

• We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Serious

• I do not question the power of our weapons and the efficiency of our logistics; I cannot say these things delight me as they seem to delight some of our officials, but they are certainly impressive.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Power
  • Me
  • Question

• I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Children
  • Husband
  • Most

• You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Children
  • Book
  • Difficult

• The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Real
  • Power
  • Cold

• I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and read everything I could get my hands on.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Children
  • Family
  • Hands

• Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Judge

• The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Power
  • Wise
  • Same

• My children went to Bethesda Elementary School. I wouldn't do anything to endanger the safety of Bethesda.

  

  A. James Clark
  • Children
  • School
  • Safety

• Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think of them at all. They grow up with no shared moral framework, believing that the highest values are diversity, tolerance and non-judgmentalism.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Up
  • Children
  • Culture

• In Kuwait there is already a real, elected parliament with genuine power, but the prime minister is always a member of the ruling al-Sabah family. That must end.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Real
  • Family
  • Power

• I loved being on set when I was younger.

  

  Emma Roberts

• In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and their point of view.

  

  John Henrik Clarke
  • People
  • American
  • History

• One begins to think with that new building block, rather than with littler pieces. And finally, the things which seem like elements dissolve, and leave a fabric of relationships behind, which is the stuff that actually repeats itself, and gives the structure to a building or a town.

  

  Christopher Alexander

• The only way to be productive is to be positive.

  

  Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
  • Positive
  • Productive

• You really are children. You have no idea how power works, or who has it, or what you can actually do with it.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Children
  • Power