Orson Scott Card Quotes

“I taught you everything you know. But I didn’t teach you everything I know.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

topic:knowledge teaching

“Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

topic:freedom

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

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

topic:self reality

“We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar, except that he made himself dictator, and died for it.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

topic:power leadership

“From now on the enemy is more clever than you. From now on the enemy is stronger than you. From now on you are always about to lose.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

topic:strength enemy

“the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can’t kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

topic:power killing

“That’s the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. You lose friends.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

topic:friendship

“the seed of doubt was there, and it stayed, and every now and then sent out a little root. It changed everything, to have that seed growing. It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

topic:wisdom doubt listening

“Nights were so real that days began to seem dreamlike to him.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

topic:reality dream

“There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

topic:words world change

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