Orson Scott Card Quotes

It is nearly impossible to hate anyone whose story you know.

When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.

I've undoubtedly offended people, but in the end, I've learned the people that will understand are the people I want to connect to, anyway.

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

I got a lot of empathy from my mother growing up, and I think it prevented me from ever really just writing people off.

I have come to a point where I have accepted that not everyone is meant to be friends.

There's nobody you can't love once you know their story. I believe that to be, in the majority, true.

When you know someone's story, it becomes much harder to hate them.

You can't hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.

Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.

You hate evil, but you don't hate the people that do evil. So, hate has to go out the window.

We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of others and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us.

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.

Hate the sin and not the sinner' is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

Where love is thick, faults are thin. If you really love someone, then it is difficult to find fault with him. His faults seem negligible, for love means oneness.

After all, the only way to communicate is to find someone who can comprehend; the only way to be forgiven is to find someone who is willing to forgive.

In our relations with the people around us, we forgive them more readily for what they do, which they can help, than for what they are, which they cannot help.

Hating people isn’t a productive way of living. So what’s the point in hating anyone? There’s enough hate in the world as it is, without me adding to it.

Know all and you will pardon all.

Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.

I call on you not to hate, because hate does not leave space for a person to be fair and it makes you blind and closes all doors of thinking.

In order to have understanding, you need forgiveness, compassion, and empathy.

The only thing that can conquer hate is love.

Friendship is accepting a person with all their qualities - good and bad.

'Laramie' is a way in to replacing any hate in your heart with understanding, compassion, and acceptance.