Orson Scott Card Quotes
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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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This man, though, was of that rare type that knew what he wanted but didn't want anything badly enough to demand it or beg for it or hurt anyone else in the process of getting it.
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We are the actors and the audience as well, all of us. And the critics. We are also the critics.
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When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.
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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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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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How short life is for fools.
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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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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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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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It (i. e., advertising) was like horoscopes-enough blind stabs and some of them are bound to strike a target.
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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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'I was ordained,' said the preacher. 'No one ordains artists. They ordain themselves.'Just as Taleswapper had expected. The preacher retreated to authority as soon as he feared his ideas could not stand on their own merit. Reasonable argument was impossible when authority became the arbiter.
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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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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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If it isn't a wonderful story first, who cares how 'important' it is?
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Didn’t he know that when you work to destroy, you invite the Destroyer?
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That's what survival means, for me. I thought it was a matter of staying alive, but it isn't. Nobody lives forever anyway. It's how you're remembered. It's what your children thought of you, what they think of you after you're dead. That's survival.
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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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A man who can’t read only knows what other folks tell him.
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I walked down the hill, forgot philosophy, and joined the human race again. Nobody was particularly glad to see me.
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'My religion,' said Ms. Brown, 'is to try to falsify all hypotheses.'
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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.