Orson Scott Card @OSCardQuotes

Daily quotes from the author of the Enderverse! Joined May 2022

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2 years ago

Sometimes you have to just tell people the truth and ask them to do the thing you want, instead of trying to trick them into it.

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2 years ago

A commander who rules by fear and makes all the decisions himself will always be beaten, sooner or later.

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2 years ago

In her judgement, at least, God did not want his servants to sit around waiting for God to work miracles to save them. He wanted his servants to labor as best they could to bring about righteousness.

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2 years ago

People above you, they never want to share power with you. Why you look to them? They give you nothing. People below you, you give them hope, you give them respect, they give you power, cause they don't think they have any, so they don't mind giving it up.

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2 years ago

The teachers *wanted* the students to play the game, and knew that the best way to encourage it was to put strict limits on it... and then not enforce them.

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2 years ago

Until you know that you're tougher than the enemy, you maneuver, you don't commit to battle.

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2 years ago

You can always foresee things that already happened.

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2 years ago

Throughout history, great victories have come as much because of the losing army's errors as because of the winner's brilliance in battle.

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2 years ago

If there was anything that history taught, it was this: Sometimes the other side is irresistibly strong, and then the only sensible course of action is to retreat in order to save your force to fight another day.

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2 years ago

The business of science fiction is sometimes to show impossible nightmares.

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2 years ago

If you do not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you are not learning at all, you are merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which is no improvement.

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2 years ago

Which would be the better outcome—everybody blames you, but we win the war, or nobody blames you, because you've all been stood up against a wall and shot?

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2 years ago

Without outside stimulation it was hard to break free of his own assumptions. One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

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2 years ago

It wasn't hunger that caused children to become bullies on the street. The bulliness was already in the child, and whatever the stakes were, they would find a way to act as they needed to act.

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2 years ago

It wasn't just enough to survive. It never had been. Deeper than his need for food had been his hunger for order, for finding out how things worked, getting a grasp on the world around him.

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2 years ago

And when he understood all this, he made a decision: It will do no harm to me if she believes all this. And she wants very much to believe it. So why not give it to her?

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2 years ago

In the end, Bean suspected, character mattered more than intelligence.

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2 years ago

If there was somebody in charge, then he ought to be fair, and if he wasn't fair, then why should Sister Carlotta be so happy that he was in charge?

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2 years ago

What was she thinking, to treat evil as if it were a mere mechanical product of deprivation? All the children of the street suffered fear and hunger, helplessness and desperation. But they didn't all become cold-blooded, calculating murderers.