top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I'll become exactly the tool you want me to be, said Ender silently, but at least I wont be fooled into it. I'll do it because I choose to, not because you tricked me, you sly bastard."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Freedom quotes
"When you are imprisoned by the rules of conformity, it tames your imaginative capacity and steals your free thinking abilities."
"Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness."
"When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw."
"Free will is absolute when the choice is right."
"You are only free when you can grow wings of wisdom to fly away from the cage of societal conformity."
"Crime must be brought under control... Freedom without civility, freedom without the ability to live in peace, was not true freedom at all."
"Faith revels in the liberating fact that only a terribly miniscule part of life lies within the constricted confines of my reach, and that I am graciously invited out to live in a place beyond my grasp."
Explore more quotes by Orson Scott Card
"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."
"Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence."
"The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make."
"But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore."
"I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more."
"God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause."
"In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him."
bottom of page