People Quotes by Orson Scott Card

I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.

— Orson Scott Card

Good people can't out-think evil, cause evil thinks of things good folks can't think of.

— Orson Scott Card

“People get used to anything, if it just goes on.”

— Orson Scott Card

I'm neutral on lying, seeing as how there's times when the truth just hurts people.

— Orson Scott Card

Sometimes good people have to do terrible things.

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Good people do not let others suffer needlessly.

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I don't know why people who got what they need to be happy don't just go ahead and be happy.

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Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.

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Religion is tied to the deepest feelings people have. The love that arises from that stewing pot is the sweetest and strongest,…

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When you have faith in something a lot of other people believe then you a member of the church" said Ceas, "When…

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Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them.…

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Good people aren't good because they never cause harm to others. They're good because they treat others the best way they know…

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Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat…

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You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish and nothing more.

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The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or…

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Home is where the people who live there need me to come home to them, and worry about me when I'm gone.…

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And what? What's the other choice? To passively let things happen and then say: "Tut-tut, what at botch that was"? Don't we…

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People above you, they never want to share power with you. Why you look to them? They give you nothing. People below…

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the seed of doubt was there, and it stayed, and every now and then sent out a little root. It changed everything,…

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Oh, Val," said Father. "All you have to do is live your life, and everyone around you will be happier." "No greatness,…

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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

For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because…

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So let me tell you what I think about gods. I think a real god is not going to be so scared…

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All the common people want is to be left alone. All the ordinary soldier wants is to collect his pay and not…

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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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Do you know why Satan is so angry all the time? Because whenever he works a particularly clever bit of mischief God…

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[It] was written and sold. I knew it was a strong story because I cared about it and believed in it. I…

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In a way, being a Mormon prepares you to deal with science fiction, because we live simultaneously in two very different cultures.…

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How long before married people answer the dictators thus: Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts…

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As history shows us, when colonization is voluntary, people will self-select better than any testing system. It’s like those foolish attempts to…

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I know, you've been here a year, you think these people are normal. Well, they're not. WE'RE not. I look in the…

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Once you have the gallows, you'll find new reasons to hang people from it.

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Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.

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Every day people judge all other people. The question is whether they judge wisely.

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The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.

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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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If only we were wiser or better people, perhaps the gods would explain to us the mad, unbearable things they do.

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There is a myth that homosexuals are 'born that way,' and we are pounded with this idea so thoroughly that many people…

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Sometimes you have to trust people enough to let them succeed and love them enough to let them fail.

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Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing.

— Orson Scott Card