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161 " They must talk to each other directly, Ender, mind to mind. What one thinks, another can also think; what one remembers, another can also re-member. Why would they ever develop language? Why would they ever learn to read and write? How would they know what reading and writing were if they saw them? Or signals? Or numbers? Or anything that we use to communicate? This isn’t just a matter of translating from one language to another. They don’t have a language at all. We used every means we could think of to communicate with them, but they don’t even have the machinery to know we’re signaling. And maybe they’ve been trying to think to us, and they can’t understand why we don’t respond. "
― Orson Scott Card , Ender's Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
162 " The emotion she could deal with best was anger. "
― Orson Scott Card , Shadow of the Giant (The Shadow Series, #4)
163 " Carn Carby left, and ender mentally added him to his private list of people who also qualified as human beings. "
164 " For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire. "
165 " When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them. "
― Orson Scott Card , Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)
166 " That's why he hates you, because you didn't suffer when he tried to punish you. "
167 " Being here alone with nothing to do, I've been thinking about myself too. Trying to understand why I hate myself so badly. "
168 " 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... "
169 " Religion is tied to the deepest feelings people have. The love that arises from that stewing pot is the sweetest and strongest, but the hate is the hottest, and the anger is the most violent. "
― Orson Scott Card , Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4)
170 " I am old enough now to have all the memories of my people locked within my head. I remember things that happened long before I was born. I remember things that never happened at all. I live in memory. –Anton "
― Orson Scott Card , Ender's Shadow (The Shadow Series, #1)
171 " Poke had never shared out so many raisins, because she had never had so many to share. But the little kids wouldn't understand that. They'd think, Poke gave us garbage, and Achilles gave us raisins. That's because they were stupid. "
172 " Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn’t hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it was going to hurt, he could count on that statement as an accurate prediction of the future. Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth. "
173 " Sometimes lies are more dependable than the truth. "
174 " Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be. "
175 " 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. "
176 " Human beings *do* metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered. "
― Orson Scott Card , Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3)
177 " Perhaps it’s impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be. She thought of that, worried about it for a few days, and then wrote a column using that as a premise, to show that politicians who toadied to the Russians in order to keep the peace would inevitably end up subservient to them in everything. "
178 " Every day people judge all other people. The question is whether they judge wisely. "
179 " Government is all show when it isn't murder in the dark ... or soldiers in the open. "
― Orson Scott Card , Pathfinder (Pathfinder, #1)
180 " So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth. "
― Orson Scott Card , Ender in Exile (Ender's Saga, #5)