Orson Scott Card Quotes on Behavior
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He is innocent of wrong-doing, and so am I. We shall forgive each other and go on. It was a good decision, and [she] was proud of it. The trouble was, she couldn't carry it out
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Don't condescend to me mother But Quim, it seems so natural, considering how you always condescend to me
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He had the decency to be appalled by his own brutality.
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She did not understand all of human nature, but [he] had taught her this: to stop a human being from doing something, you must find a way to make this person stop wanting to do it.
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That was how human beings satisfied their sense of responsibility - checking again even when they knew it was unnecessary
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She's just being a martyr no I'm not I'm being practical. You're being a fool.
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Either she was a perfect actress or she was oblivious.
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Adults [are] so strange
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I acted like a human male. When I act like a human male it doesn't make me less human, it just makes me less female. Don't you ever tell me again that just because I don't act like a woman wants me to act, that makes me an animal.
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You'd think, from the way you talk, that people were responsible for their own behavior And they're not? Haven't you ever seen a 3 year old when he makes a foolish blunder? He looks at whatever child or adult is nearby and screams at him 'look at what you made me do!' that's the moral universe that [they] always lived in
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Law can change how people behave when others are watching - that's all
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How does he do that?
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That's one of those questions, whether human beings are really capable of change, or if all seeming changes are really a matter of framing the existing character in a different moral situation...you know
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I knew you could shed that folksy talk the minute you wanted to Yes, I can do that. Just as I can speak French to a Frenchman and Spanish to a Spaniard and four kinds of red talk depending on which tribe I'm with. But you, do you speak scorn and mockery to everyone? Or just to your betters?
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If only we could stand outside our lives and look at what we do, we might repair so many injuries before they're done.
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He was wild the way a mistreated dog becomes wild, not because it loves freedom, but because it has lost trust
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[Her] every movement betrayed the fact that she thought she was even uglier than in fact she was. Her shoulders slumped and she seemed to shrink as she walked, as if she hoped that if she became very unobtrusive enough she would entirely disappear. Of course her very ungainliness served only to call more attention to her, but I have learned that human adolescents never understand that the best way to avoid notice is to behave normally.
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What kind of animal are you? Can't you make up a lie and believe it?
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A mans dignity is never upheld by losing his self-control
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A strange people, at once cruel and kind, strong and weak, and so quick to change from one extreme to the other that I could not predict what they would do.
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All children are manipulators
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He just has no sense of tact, he never has
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I don't know a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines - the ones that they believe that they believe; and the ones that they actually try to live by. (Shadow of the Hegemon) Spoken by Sister Carlotta
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Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be. -Ender's Game