Orson Scott Card Quotes on Peace
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Was it something unavoidable, when strangers met, that the meeting had to be marked with blood?
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He had no shred of fear or hatred in him.
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That's what civilized people do - they avoid circumstances that enrage them. Or if they can't avoid it, they detach.
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Wouldn't it have been better to change humanity so it no longer desired to destroy itself?
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If I had taken away the desire for violence then humanity would not have been humanity. Not that human beings need to be violent in order to be human, but if you ever lose the will to control, the will to destroy, then it must be because you choose to lose it. My role was not to force you to be gentle and kind; it was to keep you alive while you decided for yourselves what kind of people you wanted to be.
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Wasting our time? This is a waste of time, to live in peace and plenty with my wife and children? May I waste the rest of my life, then.
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All it did was let her step off that brink into the dark unknown with a smile on her face and pride in her heart. It made death sweet to her.
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Solitary isn't necessarily lonely
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Unfree as the world was. They didn't really know it, and they were at peace. Who was I to think that this peace was worse than war?
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'Because they are beautiful monsters..., And when they live in a network of peace and hope, when they trust the world and their deepest hungers are fulfilled, then within that system, that delicate web, there is joy. That is what we live for, to bind the monsters together, to murder their fear and give birth to their beauty.'' (Wyrms)