7 Orson Scott Card Quotes on Harm

Orson Scott Card quotes on harm

28. I went back through some of the tapes. I can't help it. I like the kid. I think we're going to screw him up. Of course we are. It's our job. We're the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, but we eat the little bastards alive.

196. Failing to try and stop a murder that you might easily stop - how is that not murder?

224. You aren't very good at determining what other people want and need from you... No one is. We're all as likely to hurt as help.

331. It all spoke of the willingness of people to hurt each other, the burning passion to control what other people thought and did. So many people, in secret, subtle ways, acted to destroy people - and not just their enemies, either, but also their friends. Destroying them for the pleasure of knowing that they had the power to cause pain. And so few who devoted their lived to building other peoples strength and confidence. So few who were true teachers, genuine mates.

486. Which is the greater wrong? To hurt the unforgiving one, or hurt the one who has forgiven all?

628. She knew exactly what she had done to him. And yet she couldn't quite believe that she was jerking him around

647. There would be no compromise, no sweet-talking, no tears that could soften the hardest heart. It's not my heart that's hard, anyway. It's hers. Having no concern for what she's doing to me, the risks she's making me take against my will. My whole future down the toilet