# Quote — Orson Scott Card, Earthborn

> Out of respect for custom he treats me as if all women were equally worthless. He gives custom more respect than he gives me.

- Author: [Orson Scott Card](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card.md)
- Book: [Earthborn](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/earthborn.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card#Earthborn_(1995)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/earthborn/out-of-respect

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> Don't you hate it when somebody knows you better than you know yourself?

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> The doctrine he was going to be teaching, starting tonight, was not the sort of ideology that would stir souls; no one would die for this religion. It would only attracts converts by promising a return to old tradition and by seeming to be the religion of the future.

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> They won't be required to sacrifice anything in order to belong to your assembly. A religion that is all sweetness, but no light; all form, but no substance; all tradition, but no precept.

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