Orson Scott Card - People Quotes

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

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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.

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A dreamer, a good man, a kind man who cared less for his plan than for the people in it.

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When people say perhaps it's cause they're lying. Either they don't believe the thing they're saying, or they do believe it only they don't want to admit they do.

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You as stupid as they come. Of course, I say this with your best interests at heart. Most people are stupid. I don't hold it against them.

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Why is doubt the one thing we're never skeptical of? We question other peoples' beliefs, and the more sure they are the more we doubt them. But it never occurs to us to doubt our own doubt. Question our own questions. We think our questions are answers.

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Good people aren't good because they never cause harm to others. They're good because they treat others the best way they know how, with the understanding that they have.

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He could afford to be generous, since he didn't have to pay for it himself. Most virtues were like that. People could take pride in how virtuous they were, but the fact was that as soon as virtue got expensive or inconvenient, it was amazing how fast it gave way to practical concerns.

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A liar sees lies, said Taleswapper. Even when they aren't there. Just as a hypocrite sees hypocrites whenever he runs across good people. Can't stand to think that anyone might really be what you only pretend to be.

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Once you have the gallows, you'll find new reasons to hang people from it.

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Not that human beings need to be violent in order to be human, but if you ever lose the will to control, the will to destroy, then it must be because you choose to lose it. My role was not to force you to be gentle and kind; it was to keep you alive while you decided for yourselves what kind of people you wanted to be.

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This is the Speaker for the Dead? Judging someone by appearances?" "Maybe I've fallen in love with Grego." "You've always been a sucker for people who pee on you.

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You take responsibility for us all. Without ever waiting to be told.
So do all good people. That's what it means to be a good person.

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Just because you live every waking moment with dreams of controlling other people doesn't mean the rest of us do.

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Don't you think it's ironic that you have no idea what you're supposed to do, said Verily, and yet so many people have gone to so much trouble to prevent you from doing it?

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But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person had in mind. Once you understand what people really want, you can't hate them anymore. You can fear them, but you can't hate them, because you can always find the same desires in your own heart.

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You were born with compassion, only that also means that when people are cruel to you it cuts you deep. You won't understand that you have to walk right up to the ones who are being hateful and laugh in their faces and earn their respect. Instead you'll try to figure out what you did to make them mad at you.

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The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through all lives equally.

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I'm neutral on lying, seeing as how there's times when the truth just hurts people.

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