1,174 Quotes by Orson Scott Card

Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.” “That’s a lie.” “No. It’s just a half truth. You can worry about the other half after we win this war.

The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.

I think that a good person can sometimes do wrong out of ignorance or weakness or wrong thinking, but when hard times come, the goodness wins out after all. And a bad person can often seem good and trustworthy for a long time, but when hard times come, the evil in him gets revealed.

There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.

It's about me, or people wouldn't be so anxious to keep me from knowing about it. The absence of information is information. ~ Ender

Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind their words.

Into the the air, into the earth, into the fire, I am with you.

I don't know why people who got what they need to be happy don't just go ahead and be happy.

If he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him?