5 Orson Scott Card Quotes on Will

Orson Scott Card quotes on will

218. I know something of how he feels. I know something of having to submerge your will in someone else's. To live for them, as if they were the star of the story of your life, and you merely a supporting player. I have been a slave. But at least in all that time I knew my own heart. I knew what I truly thought even as I did what they wanted, whatever it took to get what I wanted from them.

221. [She] was not one to bend to anyone else's will.

337. Just because you're a fatalist doesn't mean I want to die.

361. Real power does not demonstrate itself in anything that can be purchased in mere money. Money only buys the illusion of power. Real power is in the force of will - will strong enough that others bend to it for it's own sake, and follow it willingly. Power that is won through deception will evaporate under the hot light of truth, as more closely you look at it, even when it resides only in a single person, without armies, without servants, without friends, but with indomitable will.

855. So it was his own will, not gods, he wanted you to submit to? I don't think it ever occurred to him that there might be a difference between the two