1,174 Quotes by Orson Scott Card

Panem et Circenses translates into ‘Bread and Circuses.’ The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore their power.

Is it some law of human nature that you inevitably become whatever your first commander was? I can quit right now, if that’s so.

Maybe that’s who you are, what you remember.” – Valentine.

We spend our lives guessing at what’s going on inside everybody else, and when we happen to get lucky and guess right, we think we ‘understand.’ Such nonsense. Even a monkey at a computer will type a word every now and then.

I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love. My parents died so others could live; now I live, so others must die.

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.

The only process you’ve mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you’ve mastered that is because you can do it in the toilet.

People always go. Always. They always believe they can make a better life than in the old world.

I want to go home, thought Ender, but I don’t know where it is.