Do you think we're making a mistake?" snapped the Bishop.
"Not at all," said Dom Cristao. "I think we've taken a step toward something truly magnificent. But humankind almost never forgives true greatness."
"Fortunately," said the Bishop, "humankind isn't the judge that matters. And now I intend to pray for this boy, since medical science has obviously reached the boundary of its competence.
This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is in flux and the right voice in the right place can move the world. Thomas Paine and Ben Franklin, for instance. Bismark. Lenin.
Orson Scott CardIt's about me, or people wouldn't be so anxious to keep me from knowing about it. The absence of information is information. ~ Ender
Orson Scott CardNonsense," said Graff. "Ender always has plans within plans.
Orson Scott CardI'm crazy," said Ender. "But I think I'm OK.
Orson Scott CardAnd it occurred to me that what we professors think of as a 'brilliant student' is nothing but a student who is enthusiastically converted to whatever idiotic ideas we've been teaching them.
Orson Scott CardEndurance, after all, was a kind of victory; a kind of heroism, too.
Orson Scott CardAs god is my witness, it was never my intent to throw out the constitution. I thought it was hanging by a thread, and I could save it... You don't save it by cutting that thread. - President Nielson
Orson Scott CardTag: politics
Nature can't evolve a species that hasn't the will to survive. Individuals might be bred to sacrifice themselves, but the race as a whole can never cease to exist.
Orson Scott CardThe most noble title any child can have, Demosthenes wrote, is third.
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