Orson Scott Card Quotes

I'm afraid to go to sleep; I don't like to lose control of myself. I don't like chauffeurs, either. I like to be in charge of my own destiny.

The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

Powerlessness frustrates; absolute powerlessness frustrates absolutely. Absolute frustration is a dangerous emotion to run a world with.

I have no power, no independence.

It's hard to stay calm when you're terrified, helpless, alone, at the mercy of men with no mercy at all.

Never run from one such as me, female. You will no’ get away - and we like it.

It's terrible to have to depend on someone else.

Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone.

I do not have easy days at home now and I drift between fear and helplessness in sunny rooms where it is unspeakably cold. Strange shudders of transformation, bodily experienced to the point of vulnerability, visions of mysteries until the certainty of having died, ecstasies to the point of stony petrifaction, and a continuation of dreaming sad dreams.

For, in truth, there is no sure way of holding other than by destroying

There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not forget this, Winston— always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever.

At this hour Lie at my mercy all mine enemies.

Safer to be feared than loved.

Even if I had expected it, even if I had known what I was going to do with my life, it would have knocked the wind out of me. When something that violent hits you, you can't help but lose your balance and fall. And after you pick yourself up, you realize you can't trust anybody to save you- not your husband, not your mother, not God. So what can you do to stop yourself from tilting and falling all over again?

We kind of agree with Mao that political power comes largely from the barrel of a gun. And we get it that if you want a friend you should get a dog.

I'm more attracted to a stronger man rather than a feminine man. Someone who would just throw me down and take control. I love feeling helpless. I definitely like a man who is aggressive and confident.

Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.

Power has no limits.

Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.

Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.

The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.

For some men the power to destroy life becomes the equivalent to the female power to create life.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.