Orson Scott Card quotes

As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times. (Orson Scott Card)
Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
Orson Scott Card
You who speak languages, you are such liars.
Orson Scott Card
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
Orson Scott Card
Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.
Orson Scott Card
Sickness and healing are in every heart; death and deliverance in every hand.
Orson Scott Card
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
Orson Scott Card
One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.
Orson Scott Card
Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.
Orson Scott Card
I'll put it bluntly. Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools.
Orson Scott Card
He could see Bonzo's anger growing hot. Hot anger was bad. Ender's anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo's was hot, and so it used him. (Orson Scott Card)
There's always hope... even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity.
Orson Scott Card
We don't admit it to ourselves, not until the very moment of death, but in that moment, we see all life before us and we understand how we chose, every day of our lives, the manner of our death.
Orson Scott Card
No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.
Orson Scott Card
I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often.
Orson Scott Card
Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.
Orson Scott Card
What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth.
Orson Scott Card
In order to learn, one must change one's mind.
Orson Scott Card
Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you.
Orson Scott Card
Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.
Orson Scott Card
Nature can't evolve a species that hasn't the will to survive. Individuals might be bred to sacrifice themselves, but the race as a whole can never cease to exist. (Orson Scott Card)
I don't hate you, I love you, you're part of myself, you're my heart and when you go it's my heart torn out and carried away.
Orson Scott Card
I have hope for you, if only because you're the only one left to hope for.
Orson Scott Card
If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you.
Orson Scott Card
With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were the words, their ideas. Every citizen started equal, on the nets.
Orson Scott Card