Orson Scott Card Quotes
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He hated the way they thought. He hated the way they didn't think. It was hard to imagine which of them he hated more.
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How short life is for fools.
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Not that human beings need to be violent in order to be human, but if you ever lose the will to control, the will to destroy, then it must be because you choose to lose it. My role was not to force you to be gentle and kind; it was to keep you alive while you decided for yourselves what kind of people you wanted to be.
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That’s the way it was then, you see. Folks noticed other people's trouble every bit as quick as if it was their own.
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The ways of love are strange and hard: the love you want is always barred; the love you have you want to change. The ways of love are hard and strange.
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She did not send for him until she was afraid; she was not afraid until he undid her work; he did not undo her work until he was past loving her.
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Alvin had met true evil in his life, but he still persisted in thinking it was awful rare, and the word was bandied about too much by those who didn’t understand what real badness was.
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The dreamers always seem to think their dream is worth the price that other people will pay. They also delude themselves that they will control whatever evil they use to try to bring about their dream.
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When people say perhaps it’s cause they’re lying. Either they don’t believe the thing they’re saying, or they do believe it only they don’t want to admit they do.
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Some men are great enough that they can love a whole woman, and not just part of her.
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My own feeling is that human happiness is a very random thing, and bestows itself willy-nilly, and there’s not much deserving about the matter.
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Please open your mind to the possibility that I might be an honest man who was himself deceived.
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Didn’t he know that when you work to destroy, you invite the Destroyer?
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Was it worth it? To lose part of who he had been in order to live free? Perhaps this new self was better than the old.
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It (i. e., advertising) was like horoscopes-enough blind stabs and some of them are bound to strike a target.
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Even the most 'Rational' people - the ones who claimed not to have a religion - were just as chauvinistic about their irreligion, sneering at and ostracizing the believers just the way the believers treated nonmembers of their own groups. It's a human universal.
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If it isn't a wonderful story first, who cares how 'important' it is?
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'My religion,' said Ms. Brown, 'is to try to falsify all hypotheses.'
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A man who can’t read only knows what other folks tell him.
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Like all children they only wanted to be known, and cared little about giving that gift to others.
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I acted like a human male. When I act like a human male it doesn't make me less human, it just makes me less female.
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We were all victims of an oppressive system, but that mattered far less to us than our deep bonding with our owners.
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I've seen Australia and I've lived on an asteroid and I'd take the asteroid.
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When he loved his bride it was not a queen he loved, but rather the girl as she might have been if she had not been destroyed in her childhood.