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1 " In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them. "
― Orson Scott Card , Ender's Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
2 " Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people. "
― Orson Scott Card , Shadow of the Giant (The Shadow Series, #4)
3 " You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are. "
― Orson Scott Card , The Worthing Chronicle (Worthing, #3)
4 " You're a monster.Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise?No, just a medal. The budget isn't inexhaustable. "
5 " 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. "
6 " In philosophy class I think we finally decided that 'good' is an infinitely recursive term - it can't be defined except in terms of itself. Good is good because it's better than bad, though why it's better to be good than bad depends on how you define good, and on and on. "
― Orson Scott Card , Ender in Exile (Ender's Saga, #5)
7 " I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. "
8 " Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. "
― Orson Scott Card , Alvin Journeyman (Tales of Alvin Maker, #4)
9 " When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence. Let it be the most obvious fabrication and you will still believe whatever truth is in it, because you can not deny truth no matter how shabbily it is dressed. "
― Orson Scott Card , Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3)
10 " A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone. "
― Orson Scott Card , Pathfinder (Pathfinder, #1)
11 " What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other, get so habituated that you could speak their words right along with them, but you never know why other people said what they said or did what they did, because they never even know themselves. Nobody understands anybody. "
― Orson Scott Card , Shadow of the Hegemon (The Shadow Series, #2)
12 " America's intellectual community has never been very bright. Or honest. They're all sheep, following whatever the intellectual fashion of the decade happens to be. Demanding that everyone follow their dicta in lockstep. Everyone has to be open-minded and tolerant of the things they believe, but God forbid they should ever concede, even for a moment, that someone who disagrees with them might have some fingerhold of truth. "
13 " But it was not the boyish grin she had known when he bounded along the low-gravity inner corridors of Battle School. This smile had weariness in it, and old fears long mastered but still present. It was the smile of wisdom. "
― Orson Scott Card , Shadow Puppets (The Shadow Series, #3)
14 " Perhaps a physicist would know at once why this whole idea was absurd. But then, perhaps a physicist would be so locked into the consensus of his scientific community that it would be harder for him to accept an idea that transformed the meaning of everything he knew. Even if it were true. "
― Orson Scott Card
15 " With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe. "
16 " The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them. "
17 " Fatherhood to us was an act of passion, soon forgot; but not to Orem ap Avonap. Never guessing that the blond and happy farmer was no blood of his, Orem had taken a part of that simple man into himself and saved it for this time. At any time in the Palace he might run by, Youth on this shoulders or, as time went by, toddling along behind. "
― Orson Scott Card , Hart's Hope
18 " Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. "
19 " We have to go. I'm almost happy here. "
20 " Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price. "
― Orson Scott Card , Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
