"Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to be controlled by good people, by people who love you." (Orson Scott Card, "Ender’s Game", 1985)
"This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question." (Orson Scott Card, "Speaker for the Dead", 1986)
"Your dream is a good one. [. . .] The desire that is the very root of life itself: To grow until all the space you can see is part of you, under your control. It’s the desire for greatness." (Orson Scott Card, "Speaker for the Dead", 1986)
"All the universe is just a dream in God's mind, and as long as he's asleep, he believes in it, and things stay real." (Orson Scott Card, "The Tales of Alvin Maker: Seventh Son", 1987)
"Everything possible to be believed is an image of the truth." (Orson Scott Card, "The Tales of Alvin Maker: Seventh Son", 1987)
"'If human beings are all monsters, why should I sacrifice anything for them?' [...] 'Because they are beautiful monsters', he whispered. 'And when they live in a network of peace and hope, when they trust the world and their deepest hungers are fulfilled, then within that system, that delicate web, there is joy. That is what we live for, to bind the monsters together, to murder their fear and give birth to their beauty.'" (Orson Scott Card, "Wyrms", 1987)
"Human beings do metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered." (Orson Scott Card, "Xenocide", 1991)
"Coincidence is just the word we use when we have not yet discovered the cause." (Orson Scott Card, "The Call Of Earth", 1992)
"Here is the truth. What human life is, what it’s for, what we do, is create communities." (Orson Scott Card, "Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus", 1996)
"History has no laws, and all patterns that we find there are useful illusions." (Orson Scott Card, "Children of the Mind", 1996)
"Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon." (Orson Scott Card, "Children of the Mind", 1996)
"He had long since learned that when something unusual was going on, he would often find out more information faster by waiting than by asking." (Orson Scott Card, "First Meetings in Ender's Universe", 2002)
"Human evolution is driven by community needs […]. How is that possible, since genetic information is passed only by and to individuals?" (Orson Scott Card, "First Meetings in Ender's Universe", 2002)
"Most human communities demand anti-survival behavior from large numbers of their members." (Orson Scott Card, "First Meetings in Ender's Universe", 2002)
"'My preliminary assessment shows that when a civil society is mature and successful, the citizens become complacent and to satisfy various needs they reinvent tribes that eventually collapse the society from the inside.' 'So both failure and success lead to failure.' 'The only question is whether it’s inevitable.'" (Orson Scott Card, "First Meetings in Ender's Universe", 2002)
"No one but the enemy will ever teach you how to destroy and conquer. I am your enemy, from now on. From now on I am your teacher." (Orson Scott Card, "First Meetings in Ender's Universe", 2002)
"People reach their peak ability as military commanders much earlier than we thought. Most of them in their late teens. The same age when poets do their most passionate and revolutionary work. And mathematicians. They peak, and then it falls off. They coast on what they learned back when they were still young enough to learn." (Orson Scott Card, "First Meetings in Ender's Universe", 2002)
"That would be true […] and indeed is true in the main, except that there are only a few types of human communities that actually survive long enough to improve the chances of individual survival." (Orson Scott Card, "First Meetings in Ender's Universe", 2002)
"The real training ground for leadership is in the game." (Orson Scott Card, "First Meetings in Ender's Universe", 2002)
"There are community traits that promote survival of the individual, and individual traits that promote the survival of the community." (Orson Scott Card, "First Meetings in Ender's Universe", 2002)
"We make each other think better […]. Together, we’re smarter." (Orson Scott Card, "First Meetings in Ender's Universe", 2002)
"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", 2008)
"Patience, absolute self-control, learning the capabilities of those under you so you can make up for their deficits through training." (Orson Scott Card, "Ender in Exile", 2008)
"Leading is a strange thing […]. People see it happening, but they don’t have a clue how it works. […] They don’t see what a leader does, they just see how everybody respects a good leader, and they want to have the attention and respect without understanding what you actually have to do to earn it." (Orson Scott Card, "Ender in Exile", 2008)
"Some people are born to lead [...].They just think that way, whether they want to lead or not. While others are born craving authority, but they have no ability to lead." (Orson Scott Card, "Ender in Exile", 2008)
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