# Quote — Orson Scott Card, Xenocide

> If you think that everybody around you is a puppet, why bother talking to them at all? Why even try to plan anything or create anything, since everything you plan or create or desire or dream of is just acting out the script your puppeteer built into you?

- Author: [Orson Scott Card](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card.md)
- Book: [Xenocide](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/xenocide.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Xenocide#Quotes) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/xenocide/if-you-think

## More from this book

> To stop a human being from doing something, you must find a way to make this person stop wanting to do it.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/xenocide/to-stop-a-human.md)

> She might be protective and possessive with her children whom she thought of as needing her, but with the people she needed, she was the opposite. If she feared they would be taken from her, she withdrew from them; she stopped permitting herself to need them.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/xenocide/she-might-be-protective.md)

> A real god doesn’t care about control. A real god already has control of everything that needs controlling. Real gods would want to teach you how to be just like them.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/xenocide/a-real-god.md)