Orson Scott Card Quotes

You aren't the kind of guy who takes the law into his own hands. You left the law in other hands and it screwed you over pretty badly.

Orson Scott Card

It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.

Orson Scott Card

Self-knowledge can be painful, but not half so damaging as self-ignorance.

Orson Scott Card

No man can bear to live with a woman who speaks nothing but the truth to him.

Orson Scott Card

Honesty always sounds like impudence to the vain and stupid.

Orson Scott Card

The ways of love are strange and hard: the love you want is always barred; the love you have you want to change. The ways of love are hard and strange.

Orson Scott Card

You are exactly what you seem, and so you always assume that other people are, too.

Orson Scott Card

Love is random; fear is inevitable.

Orson Scott Card

You are sure your enemy is stupid because he doesn't do things as you would do them. It will make you careless, and your enemy will surprise you.

Orson Scott Card

The older you get, the more you believe in God, whatever face he wears.

Orson Scott Card

Keeping secrets was the beginning of freedom.

Orson Scott Card

We were all victims of an oppressive system, but that mattered far less to us than our deep bonding with our owners.

Orson Scott Card

To me, the truth is what actually happened. Yet it is impossible to know anything approaching the whole truth about past events. Even the people living them could not possibly understand. That truth is always out of reach.

Orson Scott Card

If it isn't a wonderful story first, who cares how "important" it is?

Orson Scott Card

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

Orson Scott Card