Orson Scott Card Quotes

What is in reality cowardice and faithlessness, we call charity, and consider it the part of benevolence sometimes to forgive men's evil practice for the sake of their accurate faith, and sometimes to forgive their confessed heresy for the sake of their admirable practice.

If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

I wanted to write a book about people who have the best intentions and think - really, truly think - that they're doing the right thing. And then they realize that when those ideals come knocking at their windowsill, a lot of times they will suddenly disavow those ideals.

I just know that I don't want cheating. I refuse. I deepened myself but I don't believe in myself because my thought is invented.

Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.

We believe there should be a huge area between everything you should do and everything you can do without getting into legal trouble. I don't think you should come anywhere near that line. We don't deserve much credit for this. It helps us make more money. I'd like to believe that we'd behave well even if it didn't work. But more often, we've made extra money from doing the right thing. Ben Franklin said I'm not moral because of it's the right thing to do - but because it's the best policy.

Ye must leave righteous ways behind, not to speak of unrighteous ways.

Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat.

L'homme n'est ni ange ni be" te, et le malheur veut que qui veut faire l'ange fait la be" te. Man is neither angel nor beast.Unfortunately, he who wants to act the angel often acts the beast.

My moral standing is lying down.

I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.

Strength and strength's will are the supreme ethic. All else are dreams from hospital beds, the sly, crawling goodness of sneaking souls.

Without virtue, happiness cannot be.

Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything which needs walls and curtains.

I have a lot of beliefs, and I live by none of them - that's just the way I am they make me feel good about who I am.

You can be the smartest person in the world - which Bill Clinton is, and if he's not, his wife is - and care more than anybody else in the world - which he does, I don't doubt that for a minute. And you can care so much that you're willing to be dishonest - you can tell people one thing but do another because you really know it's for their own good. And you'll still screw it all up. Because the whole premise of what you're doing is wrong!

Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.

If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.

We Indians are Latin America's moral reserve. We act according to a universal law that consists of three basic principles: do not steal, do not lie and do not be idle.

I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person.

I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals.