Orson Scott Card Quotes About Community

Quotes about: Community

• I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone who lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself. --From the Introduction

  Orson Scott Card

  Real, Thinking, Self

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.15, Macmillan

• Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.

  Orson Scott Card

  Community, Persons, Defined

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Speaker for the Dead”, p.11, Macmillan

• America's intellectual community has never been very bright. Or honest. They're all sheep, following whatever the intellectual fashion of the decade happens to be. Demanding that everyone follow their dicta in lockstep. Everyone has to be open-minded and tolerant of the things they believe, but God forbid they should ever concede, even for a moment, that someone who disagrees with them might have some fingerhold of truth.

  Orson Scott Card

  Fashion, Believe, Sheep

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Shadow of the Hegemon”, p.176, Macmillan

• Valentine had long ago observed that in a society that expected chastity and fidelity, like Lusitania, the adolescents who controlled and channeled their youthful passions were the ones who grew up to be both strong and civilized. Adolescents in such a community who were either too weak to control themselves or too contemptuous of society's norms to try usually ended up being either sheep or wolves- either mindless members of the herd or predators who took what they could and gave nothing.

  Orson Scott Card

  Strong, Valentine, Passion

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet”, p.235, Tor Books

• The selective voluntary blindness of human beings allows them to ignore the moral consequences of their choices. It has been one of the species' most valuable traits, in terms of the survival of any particular human community.

  Orson Scott Card

  Choices, Community, Survival

• There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.

  Orson Scott Card

  Community, Fiction, Benefits

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