I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.
Orson Scott CardI say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war.
Orson Scott CardBecause never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all alongโthe same person that I am today.
Orson Scott CardThe problem with elections is that anybody who wants an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldnโt have it. And anybody who does not want an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldnโt have it, either. Government office should be received like a childโs Christmas present, with surprise and delight. Instead it is usually received like a diploma, an anticlimax that never seems worth the struggle to earn it.
Orson Scott CardI want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I donโt want to go through what youโve been through to get there.
Orson Scott CardHow long before married people answer the dictators thus: Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down, so it can be replaced with a government that will respect and support marriage, and help me raise my children in a society where they will expect to marry in their turn.
Orson Scott Card