Orson Scott Card Quotes

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause, though that cause was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse.

I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

Do you think you can cure the hatreds and the maladjustments of the world by hanging them? You simply show your ignorance and your hate when you say it. You may here and there cure hatred with love and understanding, but you can only add fuel to the flames by cruelty and hate.

Love your enemy. It will not only puzzle him, But finally illumine him.

When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight.

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Love and compassion don't at all have to make us weak, or lead us to losing discernment and vision. We just have to learn how to find them. And see, in truth, what they bring us.

I have begun to sympathetically understand Paul, though I don't like him much.

We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task.

I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.

To love a person is to know and love the person. But we can pick up an enormous amount about another human being just by exchanging a couple of sentences. It's not yet knowledge; it's an intuition that motivates you to want to find out more.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.

The crux is this: you can't be sincerely empathic towards and angry at someone at the same moment. In other words, you can't walk in someone else's shoes and step on their toes at the same time.

To get rid of an enemy one must love him.

I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

There's another reason why you should love your enemies, and that is because hate distorts the personality of the hater. We usually think of what hate does for the individual hated or the individuals hated or the groups hated. But it is even more tragic, it is even more ruinous and injurious to the individual who hates. [...] For the person who hates, the true becomes false and the false becomes true. That's what hate does.

You can't tell what a man is like or what he is thinking when you are looking at him. You must get around behind him and see what he has been looking at.

I think we should have understanding and love and peace. I mean, peace and love has been my situation. You hear that in the song. I'm trying to promote that now: peace and love and understanding.

Without love, violence will change the world; it will change it into a more violent one.

For a practitioner of love and compassion, an enemy is one of the most important teachers. Without an enemy you cannot practice tolerance, and without tolerance you cannot build a sound basis of compassion.

Hate does not produce love, and by hate one cannot remake the world.

The wise are wise only because they love.