Quotes from Orson Scott Card

but the most important message was this: the adults are the enemy, not the other armies. They do not tell us the truth.

You're very smart. Smarter than I am, I hope. Though of course I have such incredible vanity that I can't really believe that anyone is actually smarter than I am. Which means that I'm all the more in need of good advice, since I can't actually conceive of needing any.

The message was mixed, yet clear: Touch me not, thou mortal, but yes, I will bestow this smile on you. You are mine, but I am not yet yours.

All boys? A few girls. They don't often pass the test to get in. Too many centuries of evolution are working against them.

Nobody would notice you, except to feel sorry for the little kid. But I made sure they all noticed you today. They'll be watching every move you make. All you have to do to earn their respect now is be perfect.

It's the most charming thing about humans. You are all so sure that the lesser animals are bleeding with envy because they didn't have the good fortune to be born homo sapiens.

Masters never are content with mere respect from their servants.

Damn Dap and damn you too, sir, I know what I'm doing." "Do you?" "Better than anyone else." "Oh, that is obvious, since nobody else has the faintest idea what you're doing.

But if that's the case, Anderson, then in my opinion God is a bugger. You can quote me on that.

Veni, vidi, vinci

Rather, it was a prayer for the queen, that in her current unenlightened bodhisatta state she would learn greater compassion for all sentient beings in the universe. It was a prayer for harmony and kindness, for the injured of the Formic race, that their suffering would be lifted, that their minds would be open and bright and receptive to the kindness of those not of their species.

I know it as much as anyone knows anything. Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon.

Poor kid. Nobody's treatin' him fair." Ender gently pushed Bean back against the wall. "I'll tell you how to get a toon. Prove to me you know what you're doing as a soldier. Prove to me you know how to use other soldiers. And then prove to me that somebody's willing to follow you into battle. Then you'll get your toon. But not bloody well until.

La naturaleza no puede hacer evolucionar a las especies que no tienen un deseo de supervivencia.

You get so you kind of like the feeling of being hungry.

I think you're too smart to write the kind of book that would please the kind of reader who would buy a book with that title.

So you choose to measure by the only standard that allows your life to be meaningless?

Children never do understand their own childishness. Then

It's like communes—people with nothing are always willing to share.

And they apologized again. Back to business. Back to respect. And Ender realized that in their laughter, in their friendship, it had not occurred to them that he could have been included.

If you lay a hand on me I'll ram your testicles so far up inside your abdomen it'll take a heart surgeon to get them out.

you'll dream, too.>

There wasn't a trace of thrusters now.

Blamelessness does not relieve us of responsibility