Orson Scott Card Quotes

To a man with only a hammer, a screw is a defective nail.

Mine mine mine. That was the curse and power of human beings—that what they saw and loved they had to have. They could share it with other people but only if they conceived of those people as being somehow their own. What we own is ours. What you own should also be ours. In fact, you own nothing, if we want it. Because you are nothing. We are the real people, you are only posing as people in order to try to deprive us of what God means us to have.

Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.

The have influence, but no power.""In my experience, influence is power.

I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.

I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been through to get there.

Ender had come to feel a unity so strong that the word we came to his lips much more easily than I.

Never believe a rumor of my death,' said Peter. 'I have as many lives as a cat. Also as many teeth, as many claws, and the same cheery, cooperative disposition.