Orson Scott Card Quotes

Humans, in order to rise above the animals, had learned how to convert themselves into nothing more than organs or limbs or even disposable fingernails and hair of a larger metaphorical organism.

I'll be dead and you'll think about this day and wonder which of us was more the slave, you or me!

What difference does it make, whether we keep our silence because [they] force us or because we're afraid they might force us?

He isn't insane, he's simply as trapped in his life as I am in mine. That makes us friends.

Out of respect for custom he treats me as if all women were equally worthless. He gives custom more respect than he gives me.

We can wash people in the water all we want, but we can never wash their parents out of their hearts.

Today, I saw a spark of decency. Let's blow on that spark and give it fuel.

We all choose our own teachers, don't we? I wonder if our choice of teacher shows anything about what our lives will be.

Most of the things people say they remember they only imagine anyways.

I believe in everything that seems true to me right now. I just refuse to be surprised when some of those things I believe in now turn out to be false later.

I don't mind dying before you do. In fact, I rather prefer it that way.

Wishful thinking gives false gods to people who hunger for gods, but those who yearn for a world with no gods are no less likely to fall victim to their own wishful thinking.

Sometimes those who care for the whole community must act in a way that harms the individual. For a good man it never becomes easy and he avoids it when he can; but when people need him to be harsh, he will be harsh indeed, and he won't shrink from it, he'll do it with his own hand and let it be known what he does.

Haven't you ever seen a 3-year-old when he makes a foolish blunder? He looks at whatever child or adult is nearby and screams at him "Look at what you made me do!" That's the moral universe that [they] always lived in.

What cannot be healed has been healed. What was lost forever has been found. Therefore let that which cannot be forgiven be forgiven.