The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind. Orson Scott Card More Quotes by Orson Scott Card More Quotes From Orson Scott Card We have to go. I'm almost happy here. Orson Scott Card happiness He's not a killer. He just wins... Thoroughly Orson Scott Card killers killing winning It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again. Orson Scott Card women blow civilization It has been my experience that the better a man you are, the more folks there are who resent you for it, and find occasion to get angry at you no matter how kindly meant your deeds may be. Orson Scott Card resent-you deeds men When I am drunk I am at my best. It is the national knack of the French. Orson Scott Card knack drunk it was all your genes that made us geniuses, mom. said peter. we sure didn't get any from dad. i heard that. father said, not looking up from the news that was being displayed on the table while he ate it would've been wasted if you hadn't Orson Scott Card dad mom father Whenever the law gets its hands on you, those who use the law to their own advantage will also turn it against you. Don't put your trust in the laws of men, Alvin. They were designed by strong men to improve their power over weaker ones. Orson Scott Card strong men hands If anyone have intercourse with a pig or a dog, he shall die. If a man have intercourse with a horse or a mule, there is no punishment. But he shall not approach the king, and shall not become a priest... If a pig spring upon a man for intercourse, there is no punishment. Orson Scott Card horse kings dog If a pig goes upon the threshing-floor, or a field, or a garden, and the owner of the meadow, or the field, or the garden smites it so that it die, he shall give it back to its owner; but if he does not give it back, he becomes a thief. Orson Scott Card garden pigs giving Thank God for you, Ender. Thank God. Orson Scott Card ender thank-god Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. Orson Scott Card space editing writing And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me slip away, you called my name. Orson Scott Card confusion names hands 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 trenches and charge the entrenched enemy and die like maggots under a blowtorch. We strap bombs on our bodies and blow ourselves up in the midst of our enemies. We are, when the cause is sufficient, insane. Orson Scott Card insane blow enemy Sometimes good people have to do terrible things. Orson Scott Card terrible sometimes people There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane. Orson Scott Card acting house writing But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person had in mind. Once you understand what people really want, you can't hate them anymore. You can fear them, but you can't hate them, because you can always find the same desires in your own heart. Orson Scott Card hate heart people What you are is a man who means to be good, and undo the bad he's done, and that's as good as any man ever gets. Orson Scott Card done men mean She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little girl she had said - to the consternation of her family - What kind of idiot was Eve, to believe a snake? But now she understood, for she had heard the voice of the snake and had watched as a wise and powerful man had fallen under its spell. Eat the fruit and you can have the desires of your heart. It's not evil, it's noble and good. You'll be praised for it. And it's delicious. Orson Scott Card girl powerful wise None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing. Orson Scott Card doing-nothing long My own feeling is that human happiness is a very random thing, and bestows itself willy-nilly, and there's not much deserving about the matter. Orson Scott Card random-things matter feelings
