Orson Scott Card Quotes

Secrets affect you more than you’d think. You lie to keep them hidden. You steer talk away from them. You worry someone’ll discover yours and tell the world. You think you are in charge of the secret, but isn’t it the secret who’s actually using you?

Even as you enter the fourth year after the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush is still misleading and deluding you and hiding the real reason from you.

What's public is propaganda, what's secret is serious.

In Washington, the ostensible story is rarely the real story.

They're feeding the people a line of bull, and they are spinning and people are dying.

The most guileful amongst the reporters are those who appear friendly and smile and seem to be supportive. They are the ones who will seek to gut you on every occasion.

It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.

Tyrion let the eunuch help him mount. "Lord Varys," he said from the saddle, "sometimes I feel as though you are the best friend I have in King's Landing and sometimes I feel you are my worst enemy." "How odd. I think quite the same of you.

We can't say anything, but just remember that, on Fringe, nothing is as it seems. There's always a little more to the story behind the story. He's definitely a large part, going forward. A lot of things will come full circle.

When you give false information you tend to restrict the freedom of choice to others.

Seducers are more dangerous enemies to the church than persecutors.

You've learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies.

The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves important.

The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.

Our rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that our government has done to other people, not to mention our own.

Much truth is spoken, that more may be concealed.

Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.

Inside everybody's hiding something.

That it is not the people who really feel that way, but it is people who have the most money to fire up these propaganda campaigns, these like, basically these lies that they are willing to lie to the public in order to manipulate them into doing what they want. And to me it doesn't make any sense.

I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true

And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence

There are so many fools in the world for the devil to operate upon, it gives him the advantage oftentimes.

All talk of winning the people by appealing to their intelligence, of conquering them by impeccable syllogism, is so much moonshine.

He who cannot love must learn to flatter.