To have a choice at all is to be free - even when the choice is between two terrible things. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Before we are citizens, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“No one with him to tell him he must eat, he must go practice, he must sleep. Freedom. The trouble was, he… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“America. The enemy. The rival. The land of jeans and rock and roll, of crime and capitalism, of poverty and oppression. Of… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“all living things are manipulated as long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead are… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly.… — 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
“Running was the way he dreamed. Having never been in control of his life, his idea of freedom was simply to break… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Before we are citizens, he thought, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Mark my words, when a government pretends that it is the highest judge of its own actions, the result is not freedom… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Do you know why Satan is so angry all the time? Because whenever he works a particularly clever bit of mischief God… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make... So-- as I recall, the official philosophical answer is… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
