1,174 Quotes by Orson Scott Card

Keep this in mind - it only works because what's between you, that's real, that's what matters. Billions of those connections between human beings. That's what you're fighting to keep alive.

You're not crazy. You're not evil. But you can't stop.

Just as [he] had expected. The preacher retreated to authority as soon as he feared his ideas could not stand on their own merit. Reasonable argument was impossible when authority became the arbiter....

Dar explicaciones a tus hombres no mengua el respeto que sienten por ti, sino que demuestra tu respeto por ellos.

Free will doesn’t exist. Only the illusion of free will, because the causes of our behavior are so complex that we can’t trace them back. If you’ve got one line of dominoes knocking each other down one by one, then you can always say, Look, this domino fell because that one pushed it. But when you have an infinite number of directions, you can never find where the casual chain begins. So you think, That domino fell because it wanted to.

To stop a human being from doing something, you must find a way to make the person stop wanting to do it.

I think it's a rule that it's socially acceptable to wet yourself when aliens enter your mind for the first time. If it wasn't already, it is now.

«Eso es la Tierra —pensó—. No un globo de miles de kilómetros, sino un bosque con un lago brillante, una casa escondida en la cresta de la colina, rodeada de árboles, una ladera cubierta de hierba que subía desde el agua, peces saltando y pájaros cayendo en picado para atrapar los insectos que vivían en la frontera entre el agua y el cielo. La Tierra era el ruido constante de grillos y vientos y pájaros.

A man always assumes that others are as virtuous as himself