Orson Scott Card Quotes

Typically in 'Game of Thrones,' people who are honest and just and do things for the right reasons tend not to survive.

When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is.

I realized early that unless you're willing to kill the innocent, you can't win.

The law of honor: Go along only on the paths of honor. Fight, and never be a coward. Leave the path of infamy to others. Better to fall in an honorable fight than win by infamy.

You do not have the right to take another human's life, unless it's in strict self-defense.

If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot.

We were taught to kill the enemy. They were evil. We were doing something good.

War not only teaches what man can be, but it teaches also what he must not be.

You have to treat everybody the right way. Otherwise, you'll have a short life. God bless.

I couldn't believe that talk about Jon Jones fighting Lesnar - that would have zero legitimacy. In society, we punish people that do bad things. Why isn't it the same in fighting?

People can dress it up however they want to, but boxing is life and death.

I've been to war, and I know the consequences and sacrifice it takes. If we must fight, we fight to win.

War is always a matter of doing evil in the hope that good may come of it.

There is no man, and no place, without war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.

It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals.

A cowboy never takes unfair advantage - even of an enemy.

The fundamental difference between us and the terror network we fight is that we value every life.

You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on which you hold it.

I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady, I am all the contrary of a Christ I fight for the things I believe in, with all the weapons at my disposal and try to leave the other man dead so that I don't get nailed to a cross or any other place.

A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.

No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.

I love Viacom. I love CBS. And so I don't want to die. I have a will to live. The same will to win that I've always had. And — I'm gonna fight death as long as I can. I like it here. I don't want to go anywhere else.

There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.

A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace.

Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be.