Humans Quotes by Orson Scott Card

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing.

— Orson Scott Card

Human: That's stupid. Isn't there grass on both sides?

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Even the most introverted person alive is constantly hungry for human association

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The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.

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Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender.

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a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past.

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Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.

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Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation…

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Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a…

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What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we…

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To expect wickedness from human beings is the best way I know of to avoid surprises. And when I am surprised, it's…

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Maybe we're the fools, for thinking we know things. Maybe humans are the only ones who can deal with the fact that…

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“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…

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Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles…

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“Just because they didn't know they were killing human beings doesn't mean they weren't killing human beings.”

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That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be allowed to have as many children as…

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“It isn’t the world at stake, Ender. Just us. Just humankind. As far as the rest of the earth is concerned, we…

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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

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

So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it.…

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If human beings are all monsters, why should I sacrifice anything for them?" "Because they are beautiful monsters..., And when they live…

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Miro, I'm so sorry. I always felt such pity for you humans because you could only think of one thing at a…

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Humans invent an imaginary lover and put that mask over the face of the body in their bed. That is the tragedy…

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As a species, we have evolved to survive. And the way we do it is by straining and straining and, at last,…

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The tribe is whatever we believe it is. If we say the tribe is all the Little Ones in the forest, and…

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There was no name for the disease; his body had gone insane, forgotten the blueprint by which human beings were built. Even…

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The Buggers have finally, finally learned that we humans value each and every individual human life... But they've learned this lesson just…

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I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind…

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It is easy to say that you can adopt the whole human race as your children, but it is not the same…

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You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you…

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This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we…

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Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.” “That’s a lie.” “No. It’s just a…

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Human beings do metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in…

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there were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation; there were people who loved each other and people who did not; it…

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My own feeling is that human happiness is a very random thing, and bestows itself willy-nilly, and there's not much deserving about…

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Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.

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The selective voluntary blindness of human beings allows them to ignore the moral consequences of their choices. It has been one of…

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Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out…

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That was interesting, to find that it wasn't hunger that caused children to become bullies on the street. The bulliness was already…

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Surely you're not saying that God had to choose between long life and intelligence for human beings! It's there in your own…

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