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“In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them…. I destroy them.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“You really are children. You have no idea how power works, or who has it, or what you can actually do with it.”

Orson Scott Card book Stone Tables

Stone Tables (1997)

“That's what survival means, for me. I thought it was a matter of staying alive, but it isn't. Nobody lives forever anyway. It's how you're remembered. It's what your children thought of you, what they think of you after you're dead. That's survival.”

Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, Earthfall (1995)

“If you could stop the suffering and dying, and didn't stop it, then you are guilty. It is your fault.
We kill no one. We do not let them kill us. We have nothing to do with them.”

Orson Scott Card

Treason (1988)

“So it's Mr. Wiggin and Who The Hell Are You.'

'About right,' Bean replied.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Shadow

Source: Ender's Shadow

“There's always hope… even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity.”

Orson Scott Card book Saints

Saints (1983)

“We don't admit it to ourselves, not until the very moment of death, but in that moment, we see all life before us and we understand how we chose, every day of our lives, the manner of our death.”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 17.

“The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.”

Orson Scott Card book Xenocide

Source: Xenocide

“He didn’t know if he had the right or not. Didn’t know if he was taking like a Red man, just what the land offered, or stealing like a White man, murdering whatever it pleased him to kill.”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 4.

“Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“It occurred to me that if my friends were loathsome, perhaps I needed to learn from my enemies.”

Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty."
Gideon Wyeth:"Why?"
Ethan: "Cause your dumb and ugly, but I can do something about thirsty.”

Orson Scott Card

“I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first.
- Ender”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.”

Orson Scott Card book Speaker for the Dead

Source: Speaker for the Dead

“It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again.”

Orson Scott Card book The Folk of the Fringe

Source: The Folk of the Fringe

“No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.”

Orson Scott Card book Speaker for the Dead

Source: Speaker for the Dead

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game