16 Orson Scott Card Quotes on Consequences

Orson Scott Card quotes on consequences

115. How clever of me. I have found such a pathway into hell that I can never get back out.

154. I no longer tell anyone half of what I know, because if I told the whole truth there would be fear, hatred, brutality, murder, war.

172. I blame on you only what you did. You started a fire on a hot, dry, windy day, despite all the warnings. I blame you for that, and if you hold yourself responsible for all the consequences of your own acts, then you are truly unworthy of human society and I hope you lose your freedom forever.

175. If you act as the enemy of life, then life will become your enemy.

197. You both refuse to listen to anybody else. You know better about everything. And when you're both done, many many innocent people are dead.

204. When you don't understand the consequences of your acts, how can you be blamed for them? You don't take the blame. But you still take the responsibility. For healing the wounds you caused.

263. We'll consider what you've told us. We wont be foolish You've already been foolish. I have no high expectations for you now.

308. Such fools they were in Battle School, to let so few girls in. It left the boys completely helpless against a woman when they returned to Earth.

317. I think that I say those things that make people so angry, not because I really mean them, but because I simply thought of a clever way to say them. It's a kind of art, to think of the perfect way to say and idea, and when you think of it then you have to say it, because words don't exist until you say them A pretty feeble kind of art, Nyef, and I say you should give it up before it gets you killed

352. [He] was young, too young to see the consequences of his actions, too young to contain his feelings.

525. He'd find out soon enough what losing everything could mean

758. He asked me quietly as we walked the next day, 'What have you done to the young soldier? Put the fear of god into him' I had meant to be funny. Odd, how a man can be careful in all his pronouncements, and then forget everything he knows as a joke comes to mind and he impulsively tells it

895. I wondered for a frightening moment how I dared to make such a decision for the whole world, without consulting anyone else. Then I laughed at myself. It was a little too late to wonder if I ought to play god. The game was already over

912. I began to suspect that the ultimate sacrifice isn't death after all; the ultimate sacrifice is willingly bearing the fullest penalty for your own actions.

986. Once you duct-tape a Ziploc bag to a man's chest, there's no going back.

1045. Once you duct-tape a Ziploc bag to a man's chest, there's no going back. -Treasure Box