It's what I was born for, isn't it? If I don't go, why am I alive? Orson Scott Card More Quotes by Orson Scott Card More Quotes From Orson Scott Card ...the thing with brothers is, you're supposed to take turns being the keeper. Sometimes you get to sit down and be the brother who is kept. Orson Scott Card down-andbrotherinspirational It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes. Orson Scott Card luxurypoliticalclass I always tell the truth about what I’m selling, and then nobody buys it. Orson Scott Card sellingtelling-the-truth Poke gave him life. Ender gave it meaning. Orson Scott Card enderpoke The criminal misuse of time was pointing out the mistakes. Catching them―noticing them―that was essential. If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement. The part of the man's statement that was true, however, was about the uselessness of speaking up. If I know that the teacher is wrong, and say nothing, then I remain the only one who knows, and that gives me an advantage over those who believe the teacher. Orson Scott Card mistaketeacherbelieve The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in. Orson Scott Card causestimelong The world is always a democracy in times of flux, and the man with the best voice will win. Orson Scott Card fearwinningmen The world was full of locked doors, and he had to get his hand on every key. Orson Scott Card keysdoorsscience Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter. Orson Scott Card argumentlibertyimpossible No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Orson Scott Card humansdesirelife Ender's Game is set more than a century in the future and has nothing to do with political issues that did not exist when the book was written in 1984... It will be interesting to see whether the victorious proponents of gay marriage will show tolerance toward those who disagreed with them when the issue was still in dispute. Orson Scott Card gaygamesbook There's no need to legalize gay marriage. I have plenty of gay friends who are committed couples; some of them call themselves married, some don't, but their friends treat them as married. Anybody who doesn't like it just doesn't hang out with them. Orson Scott Card gaycoupleneeds Legalizing gay marriage is not about making it possible for gay people to become couples. It's about giving the Left the power to force anti-religious values on our children. Once they legalize gay marriage, it will be the bludgeon they use to make sure that it becomes illegal to teach traditional values in the schools. Orson Scott Card couplereligiouschildren Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down. Orson Scott Card governmentlawenemy There is a myth that homosexuals are 'born that way,' and we are pounded with this idea so thoroughly that many people think that somebody, somewhere, must have proved it. Orson Scott Card peopleideasthinking If the Church has no the authority to tell its members that they may not engage in homosexual practices, then it has no authority at all. And if we accept the argument of the hypocrites of homosexuality that their sin is not a sin, we have destroyed ourselves. Orson Scott Card churchhypocritepractice I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right Orson Scott Card love-youtimelying I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt. Orson Scott Card gratefulpoisoncivilization Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging. Orson Scott Card hungereyereal Two sides of the same coin, but which side is which? Orson Scott Card coinstwo-sidestwo
