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“A man without a wife and babies is a menace to civilization… One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.” (Ender in Exile Quotes)
Orson Scott Card
Ender in Exile
“But he was never one of them; their relationship was too unequal. He had loved them so he could know them, and he had known them so he could use them.”
Orson Scott Card
Ender in Exile
“Don’t judge me until you understand me. You can’t understand me if you’ve already judged me.”
Orson Scott Card
Ender in Exile
“Don’t we all manipulate people? Even if we openly ask them to make a choice, don’t we try to frame it so they’ll choose as we think they should?”
Orson Scott Card
Ender in Exile
“Going to say it anyway,” said Graff. “Poor fool of a boy. Pacifism only works with an enemy that can’t bear to do murder against the innocent. How many times are you lucky enough to get an enemy like that?”
Orson Scott Card
Ender in Exile
“If desire did not dim the brain, nobody would ever get married, drunk, or fat.”
Orson Scott Card
Ender in Exile
“If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth.”
Orson Scott Card
Ender in Exile
“In philosophy class I think we finally decided that ‘good’ is an infinitely recursive term – it can’t be defined except in terms of itself. Good is good because it’s better than bad, though why it’s better to be good than bad depends on how you define good, and on and on.”
Orson Scott Card
Ender in Exile
“In the real world irrational things happened, impossible coincidences happened, because probability required that coincidences rarely, but not never, occur.”
Orson Scott Card
Ender in Exile
“It is easy to say that you can adopt the whole human race as your children, but it is not the same as living in a home with a child and shaping all you do to help him learn to be happy and whole and good. Don’t live your life without ever holding a child in your arms, on your lap, in your home, and feeling a child’s arms around you and hearing his voice in your ear and seeing his smile, given to you because you put it into your heart.”
Orson Scott Card
Ender in Exile
“It’s about me, or people wouldn’t be so anxious to keep me from knowing about it. The absence of information is information. ~ Ender”
Orson Scott Card
Ender in Exile
“It’s easy to manipulate your children when they’re absolutely sure you’re stupid.”
Orson Scott Card
Ender in Exile
“My needs are simple and few, thought Valentine. Food. Clothing. A comfortable place to sleep. And no idiots.” (Ender in Exile Quotes)
Orson Scott Card
Ender in Exile
“Nobody has control of anything. We’re all beggars at the throne of fate. But sometimes he has mercy!”
Orson Scott Card
Ender in Exile
“One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.”
Orson Scott Card
Ender in Exile
“So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth.”
Orson Scott Card
Ender in Exile
“That was the difference between her and the idiots of the world. They were all trying to look smart and keep their social standing. Whereas Valentine didn’t care about social standing, she cared about getting it right. Getting the truth.”
Orson Scott Card
Ender in Exile
“The task of the tyrant is not to compel, but to persuade even the unwilling that compliance better serves their interest than resistance.”
Orson Scott Card
Ender in Exile
“There are so many powerful people in this world who refuse to see any vision they didn’t think of.”
Orson Scott Card
Ender in Exile
“There was some enthusiasm for a Caliban village, but it quickly dissipated when people contemplated a future village school and what the mascot might look like.”
Orson Scott Card
Ender in Exile
“There were not enough women among them, but they began to work out social patterns that would maximize reproduction and keep from having too many males without a hope of mating. Within a generation or two, if babies came in the usual proportions, half male and half female, the normal human pattern of monogamy could be restored.”
Orson Scott Card
Ender in Exile
“They gave us the stardrive we used to get to them, and the weapon we used to kill them. They gave us everything.”
Orson Scott Card
Ender in Exile
“Violence was what the military existed for. Controlled violence directed against appropriate targets.”
Orson Scott Card
Ender in Exile
“We suddenly find ourselves afflicted with peace, you see. Always a disaster for those whose careers have not reached their natural apex.”
Orson Scott Card
Ender in Exile
“You only feel that way because the boy you love is not aware enough of his own feelings to make things clear to you or even to himself.”
Orson Scott Card
Ender in Exile
