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““We don’t go to Fort Chicago,” said Ta-Kumsaw. “We go to the holy place.”
“A church?” asked Alvin.
Ta-Kumsaw laughed. “You White people, when you make a place holy you build walls so nothing of the land can get in. Your god is nothing and nowhere, so you build a church with nothing alive inside, a church that could be anywhere, it doesn’t matter—nothing and nowhere.”
“Well what does make a place holy?” asked Alvin.
“Because that’s where the Red man talks to the land, and the land answers.””

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 7.

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

Orson Scott Card Treasure Box

Treasure Box (1996)

“What difference does it make, whether we keep our silence because [they] force us or because we're afraid they might force us?”

Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“To be cut off from the land of the living, and yet not to be dead. How could I bear that?
That's how most men live, and don't even know it.”

Orson Scott Card book Stone Tables

Stone Tables (1997)

“Do you speak Scorn and Mockery to everyone? Or just to your betters?”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 2.

“If there's no place in the universe for a man to resist the thieves of freedom and still be called a good man, then I don't think there is any good or evil in the universe.”

Orson Scott Card

Treason (1988)

“My religion,” said Ms. Brown, “is to try to falsify all hypotheses.”

Orson Scott Card Ender's Game hexalogy

Page 72
Ender's Game series, First Meetings in the Enderverse (2003), Teacher's Pest

“That was the most terrible thing that a woman could to a decent man: look vulnerable and ask him for mercy. If he refused her he'd be denying all his instincts as a provider and protector.”

Orson Scott Card book Homebody

Homebody (1998)

“Wishful thinking gives false gods to people who hunger for gods, but those who yearn for a world with no gods are no less likely to fall victim to their own wishful thinking.”

Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, Earthfall (1995)

“Physically plain people are perfectly able to see physical beauty in others, while people who are morally maimed are blind to goodness and decency. They honestly think it doesn't exist.
Oh, they know it exists all right. They just never know which people have it.”

Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, The Ships Of Earth (1994)

“I was the last to know what was happening to me. Or at least I was the last to know that I knew.”

Orson Scott Card

Treason (1988)

““You,” said Purity, “have been long enough out of England to pick up some American brag.”
“But surrounded by Americans as I am,” said Cooper, “my brag is like a farthing in a sack of guineas.””

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 5.

“The fear of death in the one place was not as strong as another kind of fear, the fear of a world gone crazy, a place where anything could happen, where nothing could be trusted, where nothing was certain. A terrible place.”

Orson Scott Card

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

“Out of respect for custom he treats me as if all women were equally worthless. He gives custom more respect than he gives me.”

Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“Folks always seemed to think that as long as they didn’t know about something bad, it wasn’t happening, so whoever told them actually caused it to be true.”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 2 “Squirrel and Moose” (p. 33).

“Some people can't see miracles when they're right in the middle of them.
Better than seeing miracles that don't exist.
You're determined to stand entirely alone, aren't you?
That's where I've always stood.”

Orson Scott Card book Stone Tables

Stone Tables (1997)

“Why did people get so upset when somebody mentioned dying? Did they think that if they didn’t mention it, it would skip a few people and leave them alive forever?”

Orson Scott Card Ender's Game hexalogy

Page 54
Ender's Game series, First Meetings in the Enderverse (2003), The Polish Boy

“We are the actors and the audience as well, all of us. And the critics. We are also the critics.”

Orson Scott Card book Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)