4 Orson Scott Card Quotes on Civilization

Orson Scott Card quotes on civilization

294. Isn't that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?

388. Maybe we're like the baboons. When we're stable and civilized, the women decide things, establish the households, the connections between them, create the neighborhoods and the friendships. But when we're nomadic, living lives on the edge of survival, men rule, and brook no interference from the women. Perhaps that's what civilization means - is the dominance of the female over the male/ and wherever that lapses, we call the result uncivilized, barbarian ... Manly.

1044. Isn't that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want? -Ender's Shadow

1094. War triggers human inventiveness at the most brilliant, because if you don't win your wars, your civilization disappears -Empire