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Pathfinder (Pathfinder, #1) QUOTES

Pathfinder (Pathfinder, #1) QUOTES

1 " 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)

2 " Then, as Father had trained him, Rigg thought past his feelings. "

― Orson Scott Card , Pathfinder (Pathfinder, #1)

3 " Government is all show when it isn't murder in the dark ... or soldiers in the open. "

― Orson Scott Card , Pathfinder (Pathfinder, #1)

4 " She likes us,” said Umbo. “I know, I could feel it too,” said Rigg. “She’s really glad to have us here. I think she loves us like her own children.” “Whom she murdered and cut up into the stew.” “They were delicious. "

― Orson Scott Card , Pathfinder (Pathfinder, #1)

5 " Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing. "

― Orson Scott Card , Pathfinder (Pathfinder, #1)

6 " But Father has also taught him: Treat a man as if he had a fine reputation to protect, and he will usually endeavor to deserve it. "

― Orson Scott Card , Pathfinder (Pathfinder, #1)

7 " The selective voluntary blindness of human beings allows them to ignore the moral consequences of their choices. It has been one of the species' most valuable traits, in terms of the survival of any particular human community. "

― Orson Scott Card , Pathfinder (Pathfinder, #1)

8 " A person is what he says and does; that's how you learn whether his reputation was earned or manufactured. "

― Orson Scott Card , Pathfinder (Pathfinder, #1)

9 " Your ego-depletion seems problematically difficult to assuage. "

― Orson Scott Card , Pathfinder (Pathfinder, #1)

10 " (Rigg) had often complained that all these languages were useless, and Father had only said, "A man who speaks but one language understands none. "

― Orson Scott Card , Pathfinder (Pathfinder, #1)

11 " But I'm three times your age or more and my brain is worn out and full up. I don't have much room to tuck new things square inside; they just cling to the outside for a while and drop off. "

― Orson Scott Card , Pathfinder (Pathfinder, #1)

12 " Saving the human race is a frantic one. Or a tedious one. It all depends on what stage of the process you're taking part in. "

― Orson Scott Card , Pathfinder (Pathfinder, #1)

13 " I know you know, and you know that I know that you know. It spirals on from there, so let's just assume the dot dot dot. "

― Orson Scott Card , Pathfinder (Pathfinder, #1)

14 " See how ignorant you are? You don't even know why you need to know the things you don't know yet. "

― Orson Scott Card , Pathfinder (Pathfinder, #1)

15 " Rigg," said Father, "you're so smart and so dumb at the same time that it almost takes my breath awway "

― Orson Scott Card , Pathfinder (Pathfinder, #1)

16 " Maybe I will do what I want with my life!

The only problem is that I have no idea what I want to do with it. "

― Orson Scott Card , Pathfinder (Pathfinder, #1)

17 " I didn't know that empty rationalization was part of your programming," said Ram.
"We would not be fit companions for human beings without it. "

― Orson Scott Card , Pathfinder (Pathfinder, #1)

18 " For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts; adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment. "

― Orson Scott Card , Pathfinder (Pathfinder, #1)

19 " Whoop-de-do," said Ram.
"What?"
"I'm celebrating."
"Was that irony or loss of mental function?" asked the expendable.
"Was that a rhetorical questions, a bit of humor, or a sign that you are losing confidence in me?"
"I have no confidence in you, Ram," said the expendable.
"Well, thanks."
"You're welcome. "

― Orson Scott Card , Pathfinder (Pathfinder, #1)

20 " No one can know a false thing, one can only believe it with certainty until it is contradicted. (Page 7) "

― Orson Scott Card , Pathfinder (Pathfinder, #1)