Orson Scott Card Famous Quotes



Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken.

"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."

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.

"Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it."

"Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing."


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