Orson Scott Card Quotes
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Debased men, but they all had something in common: They showed a keen regard for virtue, and tried to dress themselves in that costume. Hypocrisy, for all its bad reputation, at least showed a decent respect for goodness.
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The most evil creatures don’t desire the destruction of everything-they only desire to exploit it for themselves.
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That is the ultimate power, to stare death in the face and be unafraid.
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The others are even more likely to obey their god.Which is? It dangles between their legs.
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'I knew God had heard my prayer when I learned that it was you and no other who drew this case.''One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?'
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'You're such a liar.''But I’m a beautiful liar, don’t you think?' She flashed her best smile at her friend.'I don’t understand what men see in women anyway,' her friend answered. 'Hexes or no hexes, as long as a woman has her clothes on a man can’t see what he’s interested in anyhow.'
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To face death, that's nothing much. But to feel really stupid when you die, well, that would be insufferable.
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The older you get, the more you believe in God, whatever face he wears.
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They are beautiful monsters... And when they live in a network of peace and hope, when they trust the world and their deepest hungers are fulfilled, then within that system, that delicate web, there is joy. That is what we live for, to bind the monsters together, to murder their fear and give birth to their beauty.
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Will I be coming to you as husband or a child? A partner or a student?
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The environment that nutures creative programmers kills management and marketing types - and vice versa.
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What Alvin figured out was that when you’re Making, you don’t use people like tools. You don’t wear them out to achieve your purpose. You wear yourself out helping them achieve theirs. You wear yourself out teaching and guiding, persuading and listening to advice and letting folks persuade you, when it happens they’re right.
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You're the sort of enemy your enemy must love.
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Maybe he's growing up.Or maybe he just needed the right circumstances to discover the best in himself.
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If a father commands a son to commit a crime so terrible that the son can't do it and live with himself, then is it betrayal for the son to disobey his father?
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'A man like that thinks that fear can win loyalty.''Plenty of masters with a lash who can testify it works.''Don’t win loyalty, just obedience, and only while the lash is in the room.'
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Why give you answers you wont believe?Well, answers I don't believe would be a step forward.
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The doctrine he was going to be teaching, starting tonight, was not the sort of ideology that would stir souls; no one would die for this religion. It would only attracts converts by promising a return to old tradition and by seeming to be the religion of the future.
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My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn’t you.
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Only boys were so foolish that they actually believed their arguments were their reasons.
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Good people can't out-think evil, 'cause evil think of things good folks can't think of. Can't enter your head what evil do.
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War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited.
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I always tell what I believe. Whether it's true, I'm no more sure than any man.
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You think my apology means I'm weak. But it doesn't. It means I am trying to learn how to be strong.