a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Even the most introverted person alive is constantly hungry for human association — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Maybe we're the fools, for thinking we know things. Maybe humans are the only ones who can deal with the fact that… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
To expect wickedness from human beings is the best way I know of to avoid surprises. And when I am surprised, it's… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“While you're governing the colony and I'm writing political philosophy, They'll never guess that in the darkness of night we sneak into… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
If human beings are all monsters, why should I sacrifice anything for them?" "Because they are beautiful monsters..., And when they live… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“It isn’t the world at stake, Ender. Just us. Just humankind. As far as the rest of the earth is concerned, we… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be allowed to have as many children as… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
That was interesting, to find that it wasn't hunger that caused children to become bullies on the street. The bulliness was already… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Surely you're not saying that God had to choose between long life and intelligence for human beings! It's there in your own… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
There was no name for the disease; his body had gone insane, forgotten the blueprint by which human beings were built. Even… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The Buggers have finally, finally learned that we humans value each and every individual human life... But they've learned this lesson just… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
As a species, we have evolved to survive. And the way we do it is by straining and straining and, at last,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The tribe is whatever we believe it is. If we say the tribe is all the Little Ones in the forest, and… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It is easy to say that you can adopt the whole human race as your children, but it is not the same… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
My own feeling is that human happiness is a very random thing, and bestows itself willy-nilly, and there's not much deserving about… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
there were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation; there were people who loved each other and people who did not; it… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Just because they didn't know they were killing human beings doesn't mean they weren't killing human beings.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Human beings do metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.” “That’s a lie.” “No. It’s just a… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The selective voluntary blindness of human beings allows them to ignore the moral consequences of their choices. It has been one of… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Miro, I'm so sorry. I always felt such pity for you humans because you could only think of one thing at a… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“Why did he hesitate? He finally admitted to himself that he was like an American child who was almost completely certain about Santa Claus,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“I don't know of a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines - the ones they believe they believe; and the ones… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“The devil?” Jason heaved the tick over his shoulder like a collier with his sack. “Satan. The adversary. The enemy of the plan of… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“What we've done is make the categories of science fiction and fantasy larger, freer, and more inclusive than any other genre of contemporary literature.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“Ender, for the past few months you have been the battle commander of our fleets. This was the Third Invasion. There were no games,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“Of course they accused Marcão of having done it without provocation—that’s the way of torturers of every age, to put the blame on the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“Civilization is only a pretense; in the crisis, we become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and becoming instead the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“Where did this whole thing begin? If what we think of as reality is just a pattern that somebody brought Outside, and the universe… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
