Men Quotes by Orson Scott Card

A man who can't read only knows what other folks tell him.

— Orson Scott Card

Once you duct-tape a Ziploc bag to a man's chest, there's no going back.

— Orson Scott Card

From all wise men, O Lord, protect us.

— Orson Scott Card

It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others.

— Orson Scott Card

A man always assumes that others are as virtuous as himself

— Orson Scott Card

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.

— Orson Scott Card

What you are is a man who means to be good, and undo the bad he's done, and that's as good as…

— Orson Scott Card

Let me be loved like that, by a man who will not replace me with concubines when I'm old and ugly. Let…

— Orson Scott Card

It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again.

— Orson Scott Card

Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.

— Orson Scott Card

There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger.

— Orson Scott Card

The world is always a democracy in times of flux, and the man with the best voice will win.

— Orson Scott Card

I always tell what I believe. Whether it's true, I'm no more sure than any man.

— Orson Scott Card

“A man without a wife and babies is a menace to civilization... One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a…

— Orson Scott Card

If anyone have intercourse with a pig or a dog, he shall die. If a man have intercourse with a horse or…

— 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

Debased men, but they all had something in common: They showed a keen regard for virtue, and tried to dress themselves in…

— Orson Scott Card

It has been my experience that the better a man you are, the more folks there are who resent you for it,…

— Orson Scott Card

“[Ruthie] ... if he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But…

— Orson Scott Card

When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet…

— Orson Scott Card

Doesn't it make you wonder about your own sexual identity, not to mention your sanity, that the two women you love are,…

— Orson Scott Card

Whenever the law gets its hands on you, those who use the law to their own advantage will also turn it against…

— Orson Scott Card

She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as a woman judge men...not on the…

— Orson Scott Card

She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little…

— Orson Scott Card

Whether he likes it or not, [he] cannot remain incognito forever. He has outraged too many wise men and pleased too many…

— Orson Scott Card

The criminal misuse of time was pointing out the mistakes. Catching them―noticing them―that was essential. If you did not in your own…

— Orson Scott Card

No matter how sexually attracted a man might be toward other men, or a woman toward other women, and no matter how…

— Orson Scott Card

If you give orders and explain nothing, you might get obedience, but you'll get no creativity. If you tell them your purpose,…

— Orson Scott Card

An enemy, Ender Wiggin," whispered the old man. "I am your enemy, the first one you've ever had who was smarter than…

— Orson Scott Card

But Father has also taught him: Treat a man as if he had a fine reputation to protect, and he will usually…

— Orson Scott Card

Some men are great enough that they can love a whole woman, and not just part of her.

— Orson Scott Card

Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted…

— Orson Scott Card

If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he…

— Orson Scott Card

Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered,…

— Orson Scott Card

“My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't…

— Orson Scott Card

Ho said, 'I do not grieve because my feet have been cut off. I grieve because a precious jewel is dubbed a…

— Orson Scott Card

O my son Absalom,' Bean said softly, knowing for the first time the kind of anguish that could tear such words from…

— Orson Scott Card

Where do you draw the line between a humble man who knows his own weaknesses but tries to act out virtues he…

— Orson Scott Card

It's as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key…

— Orson Scott Card

With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful…

— Orson Scott Card