No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside themselves. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“If there were no goodness in people, mankind would still be confined to loping across a Savannah somewhere on Earth, watching the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“The future happiness of the human race depends on good people who want to live at peace with their neighbors, and who… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“It's the most charming thing about humans. You are all so sure that the lesser animals are bleeding with envy because they… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Humanity does not ask to be happy.It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, and then happiness as… — 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
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
As a species, we have evolved to survive. And the way we do it is by straining and straining and, at last, every few generaitons, giving brith to genius. The one who invents the wheel. And light. And flight. The one who builds a city, a nation, an empire...I'll put it bluntly. Human beings are free excpet when humanity needs… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
The Buggers have finally, finally learned that we humans value each and every individual human life... But they've learned this lesson just in time for it to be hopelessly wrong—for we humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our own lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to save our buddies in the foxhole. We rise out of the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“first is the otherlander, or utlänning, the stranger that we recognize as being a human of our world, but of another city… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“This is the most important thing the humans have taught me. The thing they're teaching us right now. You see, they are… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“The strangest thing about humans is the way they pair up, males and females. Constantly at war with each other, never content to leave each other alone. They never seem to grasp the idea that males and females are separate species with completely different needs and desires, forced to come together only to reproduce Of course you feel that way.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
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: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone… — 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 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
