Orson Scott Card Quotes

They have the ability to take a person's freedom from them. On certain situations, they have the ability to take a person's reputation. And under certain circumstances, they have the authority to take a person's life.

I want to live.

Life without power is death.

When it comes to power as it functions between humans, it all comes down to desire. If you know what someone wants, you can control them. It is as simple as that. And the reverse is also true: If you have control over your own desires, no one will ever own you. As humans, we are plagued with desire - it consumes us, it fuels us, it destroys us.

The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.

While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.

There are basically only two subject matters in all Western culture: sex and death. We do have some ability to manipulate sex nowadays. We have no ability, and never will have, to manipulate death.

Grab whom you must. Do what you want.

Remember that anybody who is clever enough to set you free is clever enough to enslave you.

I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away.

I would like to be able to gently drift in and out of existence when I wanted to.

I don't want to die. Damn death. Long live life.

Remember, when you hear them beginning to say "freedom" look carefully-. see who it is they want you to butcher.

When one has not long to live, why shouldn't one have fancies?

Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority.

He resisted for a while and there were some legal boundaries, you know, keeping me from being near him or his family, but in the end, love overcame. And I got what I wanted. I always get what I want.

We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"

I would like to live. . . open to time and death painlessly, noticing everything, remembering nothing, choosing the given with a fierce and pointed will.

Do you want power over something? Be more nearly real than it.

If you want to live your whole life free from pain,you must either be a god or a corpse.

Success is the ability to do what you want, whenever you want, as often as you want.

Whatever I want,' he says. 'Yes.' 'I'm afraid you haven't been privy to that dream yet.

So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire.

A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.