16 Orson Scott Card Quotes on Autonomy

Orson Scott Card quotes on autonomy

80. How could he not know that children had minds of their own, and resisted taming?

100. You don't seem to understand that you don't have the right to put blinders on other people's eyes

103. In your judgment I have no one else's judgment to use

169. You don't love him, you don't know how to love people. You only know how to own them. And because people will never act just like you want them too... You'll always feel betrayed. And because everybody dies, you'll always feel cheated. But you're the cheat... You're the one who uses our love for you to try to control us.

179. You don't know that you're right. And you don't know that I'm wrong. It's my life. The hell it is.

194. Part of you but also not-you. Other. Outside but inside. Bound to you but free. It couldn't control you and you couldn't control it.

222. You'd think she'd learn something from that. But she still does the same thing. Making decisions that deform other people's lives, without consulting them, without ever conceiving that perhaps they don't want her to save them from whatever supposed misery she's saving them from.

290. They've never seen us make a move like that. They don't understand that, yes, humans will always act to preserve their own lives - except for the times when they don't. In the bugger's experience, autonomous beings do not sacrifice themselves. Once they understood our autonomy, the seed of their defeat was sown.

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

468. Children are nothing but tools of their parents

479. I want you to discover the truth for yourself. I don't ram it down your throats like some do

627. Maybe she just wanted to be the one to decide when things happened between them. Then again, what women didn't want to decide that?

702. They gave me powers of thought and memory far beyond anything natural evolution would have given me, but that doesn't give them the right to decide the meaning of my life as if I were some dream. I decide the meaning. If my life is a dream then it's my dream, I'm the dreamer.

787. I don't like making people do things against their will No, sees-in-the-dark. You just refuse to leave them alone until they change their minds. Of their own free will

856. Stop talking and kiss her, Moses With all due respect, Jethro, that's not for you to decide Stop talking and kiss me Now you, you get a vote

1003. It's the only way to save your life Did you ever ask me if I wanted my life to be saved?