Carolina QuotesIf you could stop the suffering and dying, and didn't stop it, then you are guilty. It is your fault. We kill no one. We do not let them kill us. We have nothing to do with them.
Orson Scott Card Connected to the Carolinas
Source
No citation is recorded for this quotation.
- work
- Treason (1988)
- year
- 1988
no citation recorded
Cite this record
“If you could stop the suffering and dying, and didn't stop i…” Orson Scott Card. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-EED1E45879. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/eed1e45879
More from Orson Scott Card
The desire to force others to bend or break to her will was always there, usually hidden deeply enough that she could forget she had that wish within her, but occasionally surfacing to dangle the ripe fruit of power just out of her reach. She knew, as few others did, that the power to coerce depended entirely on the fear or weakness of other human beings. It was possible to use coercion, yes, but in the end you found yourself surrounded only by the weak and fearful, with all those of courage and strength arrayed against you.
My own feeling is that human happiness is a very random thing, and bestows itself willy-nilly, and there's not much deserving about the matter.
How short life is for fools.