Orson Scott Card

If you treat me this way, then I will treat you like a great lord, and if you do not detect the irony in my actions, then who of the two of us is the fool?

We pretend to be whatever we must in order to survive.

Genocide leads to the end of a person's life. link Xenocide

If you tell what you know, everybody is wiser. If you keep a secret, than everyone is a fool.

We never forbid where we do not also have the power to prevent.

You're only so sure you're right because they're so sure you're wrong.

Religion is tied to the deepest feelings people have. The love that arises from that stewing pot is the sweetest and strongest, but the hate is the hottest, and the anger is the most violent.

Groups are even stupider than individuals — and yet by keeping so many fools engaged in pretending to be intelligent, they still come up with some of the same results that an intelligent species would come up with.

No matter how well you know what a person has done and what he thought of what he was doing when he did it and what he now thinks of what he did, it is impossible to be certain of what he will do next.

If you act as the enemy of life, then life will become your enemy.

I looked for perfection, and I found something better.

Happiness can depend as easily on useless things as on useful ones.