Orson Scott Card Quotes About Stupidity

Quotes about: Stupidity

• Whether he likes it or not, [he] cannot remain incognito forever. He has outraged too many wise men and pleased too many fools to hide behind his too-appropriate order to assume leadership of the forces of stupidity he has marshalled, or his enemies will unmask him in order to better understand the disease that has produced such a warped and twisted mind.

  Orson Scott Card

  Leadership, Wise, Men

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set II: Ender's Game, Ender in Exile, Speak for the Dead”, p.157, Tor Science Fiction

• And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?

  Orson Scott Card

  Stupidity, Idiot, Rationalize

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow”, p.291, Macmillan

• But I fear that I also underestimate the stupidity of the rest of mankind. Are we absolutely sure that we ought to win this war?

  Orson Scott Card

  War, Winning, Stupidity

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.117, Macmillan

• Ender stepped under the water and rinsed himself, took the sweat of combat and let it run down the drain. All gone, except they recycled it and we'll be drinking Bonzo's blood water in the morning. All the life gone out of it, but his blood just the same, his blood and my sweat, washed down in their stupidity or cruelty or whatever it was that made them let it happen.

  Orson Scott Card

  Life, Running, Morning

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.139, Macmillan

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