Orson Scott Card Quotes

“Human beings didn’t evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing’s the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we’d be dead, and the tigers would own the earth.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

topic:intelligence killing

“Ender didn’t like fighting. He didn’t like Peter’s kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn’t like his own kind either, the smart against the stupid.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

topic:intelligence

“Ender Wiggin isn't a killer. He just wins—thoroughly.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

topic:killing

“I want to go home . . . but I don’t know where it is. ”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

topic:home

“Hot anger was bad. Ender’s anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo’s was hot, and so it used him.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

topic:anger

“Real respect takes longer than official respect.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

topic:respect

“I’m putting you in Dink Meeker’s toon. From now on, as far as you’re concerned, Dink Meeker is God.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

topic:obedience

“He had brought no possessions with him; he would take none away. There were none to have—everything of value was in the school computer or his own head and hands.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

topic:value

“Let the boys learn that leniency comes from their toon leaders, and harshness from their commander—it will bind them better in the small, tight knots of this fabric.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

topic:leadership

“commanders have just as much authority as you let them have.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

topic:leadership

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