16 Orson Scott Card Quotes on Authority

Orson Scott Card quotes on authority

54. He was commander every moment they were together. He never had to remind them of it; he simply was.

90. They are too cruel a god for me to worship anymore

97. Don't ever try to teach me about good and evil. I've been there; you've seen nothing but the map

136. Never mind that the rules are stupid and counterproductive. I broke them.

174. We never forbid where we do not also have the power to prevent.

282. So I have to fake it. No, I have to disbelieve it. I have to forget it's true. It isn't true. The truth is what they've been telling us

327. I will not be tamed, only persuaded. I will not be coerced or led blindly or tricked or bullied - I am willing only to be convinced. If you don't trust your own basic goodness enough to tell me what you're trying to do... Then you're confessing your own moral weakness and I'll never serve you.

417. We never know when you will stop. And so we obey you when you're angry and irrational, because we're afraid of you. And if you think about it without letting rage cloud your reason, you'll realize that we have cause to be afraid

458. You're the teacher, you're the master, you know everything, I am your puppet

462. If you don't want to control what I think, why did you raise your voice? Why did you argue with me at all?

812. He had expected many things. But not to have a 9 year old boy, however beautiful, speak with more command than an admiral of the fleet. Yet the boy's voice was an admirable lesson in strength. The chamberlain, who was never confused, was thrown into confusion

842. You really are children. You have no idea how power works, or who has it, or what you can actually do with it

853. The man who has an intelligent child is doomed to spend his life justifying every decision he makes

855. So it was his own will, not gods, he wanted you to submit to? I don't think it ever occurred to him that there might be a difference between the two

988. Sometimes it was very nice to have monsters and lawyers. Why ordinary people didn't strangle arrogant bureaucrats more often, [he] didn't know.

1004. Who are you, god? You decide who's supposed to live and how?