One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war. Orson Scott Card More Quotes by Orson Scott Card More Quotes From Orson Scott Card Nature can't evolve a species that hasn't the will to survive. Individuals might be bred to sacrifice themselves, but the race as a whole can never cease to exist. Orson Scott Card will-to-survivesacrificerace I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead are allowed the luxury of freedom, and then only because they want nothing, and therefore can't be thwarted. Orson Scott Card luxurywantlong I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school. Orson Scott Card careselfschool Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction. Orson Scott Card realreadingfiction I love you Ender. More than ever. No matter what you decide. Orson Scott Card no-matter-whatmatterlove-you In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.' What is it then?' It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but to hide. Orson Scott Card suicideviewswish Perhaps every writer who thoroughly creates a fictional world will inevitably create a mirror of his own time and yet also create a world that no one else but him has ever visited. Orson Scott Card fictional-worldsmirrorsworld But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only the story we imagine to be true, the story they really believe to be true about themselves; and all of them lies. Orson Scott Card storiesbelievelying Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation of one's nation was the most excruciating of human miseries. Orson Scott Card miseryagonybears Mom," said Peter, "nobody thinks you're a lackwit, if that's what you're worried about." Lackwit? In what musty drawer of some dead English professor's dust-covered desk did you find that word? I assure you that never in my worst nightmares did I ever suppose that I was a lackwit. Orson Scott Card dustmomthinking Oh, I'll live Ender's life, too. It's so much more interesting than my own." ~Val Orson Scott Card endermy-owninteresting If desire did not dim the brain, nobody would ever get married, drunk, or fat. ~Val Orson Scott Card drunkdesirebrain We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive. Orson Scott Card gingerbreadwickedpromise 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 library, I call up books on my desk. Old ones, because they won't let us have anything new, but I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares. Children aren't in armies, they aren't COMMANDERS, they don't rule over forty other kids, it's more than anybody can take and not get crazy. Orson Scott Card crazybookchildren That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be allowed to have as many children as they like, and the surplus population should be sent to other worlds, to spread mankind so far across the galaxy that no disaster, no invasion could ever threaten the human race with annihilation. "The most noble title any child can have," Demosthenes wrote, "is Third. Orson Scott Card lawnightchildren An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.' Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians. Orson Scott Card eyechristianpeople The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood. Orson Scott Card childrenpeoplethinking America is an empire that does not wish to be one ; we are easily discouraged from doing what must be done to maintain the global order that allows democracy and prosperity to flourish. Orson Scott Card democracyorderamerica With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were their words, their ideas. Every citizen started equal, on the nets. Orson Scott Card namesmenideas I'm not a liar, sir,' she said. "'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're pretending to be. Orson Scott Card pretendingsaidliars
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