Good people can't out-think evil, cause evil thinks of things good folks can't think of. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Once you duct-tape a Ziploc bag to a man's chest, there's no going back. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
[T]he politically correct are above the rules of ordinary civility, once they have identified you as an unbeliever in their religion. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Government is all show when it isn't murder in the dark ... or soldiers in the open.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When have you ever seen someone who had no doubts who was also correct about anything? — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
And above all, what does being liberal have to do with opposing, or, uh, supporting the war against terror? Our enemies in… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“As god is my witness, it was never my intent to throw out the constitution. I thought it was hanging by a thread, and I could save it... You don't save it by cutting that thread. - President Nielson” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
Ender's Game is set more than a century in the future and has nothing to do with political issues that did not… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
How long before married people answer the dictators thus: Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“When armies benefit from being perceived as necessary, and war provides a means of gaining prestige and leverage over the government,” said… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
That's what so many people didn't understand about life. The real world is the one within the walls of homes; the outside… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The problem with elections is that anybody who wants an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn’t have it. And anybody who does not want an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn’t have it, either. Government office should be received like a child’s Christmas present, with surprise and delight. Instead it is usually received like… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“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
I'm a Democrat voting for Bush, even though on economic issues, from taxes to government regulation, I'm not happy with the Republican… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I had no idea we planned to be so ruthless." "It was not publicized or even discussed with the political arm of… — 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: 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