# Quote — Orson Scott Card, Xenocide

> You've done all this thinking, you've seen all the possibilities for the future - good ones and bad ones alike — and yet the only ones you are willing to believe in, the imagined future that you seize upon as the foundation for all your moral judgments, is the only future in which everyone that you and I have ever loved and everything we'd ever hoped for must be obliterated.

- 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/youve-done-all

## 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.

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> 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)