1,174 Quotes by 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.

You who speak languages, you are such liars.

Don't lie to me! Don't seem so normal when I know you have cut yourself off from me in your heart! If you can put on our affectionate closeness like a mask, then I'll never be able to take joy in it again.

The world is always a democracy in times of flux, and the man with the best voice will win.

Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.

A broken clock is right two times a day.

I'm crazy," said Ender. "But I think I'm OK.

I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.

The world was full of locked doors, and he had to get his hand on every key.