This is how humans are: we question all our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question.
—Orson Scott Card
Topics: Belief
If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.
—Orson Scott Card
Topics: Government, Welfare
If only we were wiser or better people, perhaps the gods would explain to us the mad, unbearable things they do.
—Orson Scott Card
Topics: Wisdom
The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who’ve forgotten their own childhood.
—Orson Scott Card
Topics: Children
Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
—Orson Scott Card
Topics: Words
From now on, you forget about gravity before you go through that door. The old gravity is gone, erased. Understand me? Whatever your gravity is when you get to the door, remember—the enemy’s gate is down. Your feet are toward the enemy’s gate. Up is toward your own gate. North is that way, south is that way, east is that way, west is—what way?
They pointed.
—Orson Scott Card
Too many people in the American media have lost any concept of loyalty to their country—if they even consider it their country, rather than just their residence.
Yeah, that’s right, I’m playing the patriotism card. But not the way you think.
Our country is at war. And it’s a war in which victory absolutely depends on the Muslim world perceiving it as a war between the U.S and its allies on one side, and fanatical murderous terrorists on the other.
If it is ever perceived as a war against Islam, then we have lost. The world has lost.
So during such a difficult time, even people who think the Iraq War or even the whole war on terror is a horrible mistake still have an obligation of loyalty to the nation that offers them protection, prosperity, and freedom.
—Orson Scott Card
Topics: Terrorism
It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren’t for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn’t fight with honor… I fought to win.
—Orson Scott Card
Topics: Honor
Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.
—Orson Scott Card
Topics: Humanity
As long as you keep getting born, it’s alright to die some times.
—Orson Scott Card
Topics: Adversity
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
Topics: Sin
There’s a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be ‘good,’ to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
—Orson Scott Card
Topics: Community
Unemployment is capitalism’s way of getting you to plant a garden.
—Orson Scott Card
Topics: Gardening, Capitalism, Unemployment
A library is the first step of a thousand journeys, portal to a thousand worlds.
—Orson Scott Card
Topics: Libraries
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
—Orson Scott Card
Topics: Writing
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
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