1,174 Quotes by Orson Scott Card

To have a choice at all is to be free – even when the choice is between two terrible things.

Maybe she couldn’t know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.

Never take another human being to the third life, because we don’t know how to go.

That is the tragedy of language, my friend. Those who know each other only through symbolic representations are forced to imagine each other. And because their imagination is imperfect, they are often wrong.

There are miracles even reactivity can’t pull off, Ender.

Mark my words, when a government pretends that it is the highest judge of its own actions, the result is not freedom as Jefferson says, but chaos and oppression. When he shuts religion out of government, when men of faith are not listened to, then all that remains is venality, posturing, and ambition.

Since when do you have to tell the enemy when he has won.

Don’t press her,” said Cooper. “If someone decides to leave something unsaid, my experience is that everyone is happier if they don’t insist on his saying it.

Power will always end up with the sort of people who crave it.