M.M. Scott Quotes

In war, everyone has their chance to bleed.

Working is hard and distracts from having fun.

It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.

The most evil creatures dont desire the destruction of everythingthey only desire to exploit it for themselves.

Human beings do metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered.

Before we are citizens, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty.

If he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him?

Ho said, 'I do not grieve because my feet have been cut off. I grieve because a precious jewel is dubbed a mere stone, and a man of integrity is called a deceiver. This is why I weep.'

Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be.

When have you ever seen someone who had no doubts who was also correct about anything?

There's always hope... even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity.

Most victories came from instantly exploiting your enemy's stupid mistakes, and not from any particular brilliance in your own plan.

You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish and nothing more.

In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.

You can’t answer what I said, so you’re going to talk about my saying it.

Once you duct-tape a Ziploc bag to a man's chest, there's no going back.

People love to hear the brag of the local boy, because they want him to be great, but the foreigner must deny that he has any outstanding virtue - this is what will endear him to the locals.

I don't know why people who got what they need to be happy don't just go ahead and be happy.

Good people do not let others suffer needlessly.

I own the whole world, and folks haven't been keeping up too well on the payments.

I always tell what I believe. Whether it's true, I'm no more sure than any man.

I don't know a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines the ones that they believe that they believe; and the ones that they actually try to live by.

A rustic setting always suggests fantasy; to suggest science fiction, you need sheet metal and plastic. You need rivets.

It is the essence of dignity to pretend to desire what you cannot prevent.

I'm neutral on lying, seeing as how there's times when the truth just hurts people.

To expect wickedness from human beings is the best way I know of to avoid surprises. And when I am surprised, it's always pleasantly.

War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited.

A weak King must be what other Kings have been; a strong King is himself, and from then on the meaning of the name of King is changed.

He jumped at the Giants face, clambered up his lip and nose, and began to dig in the Giant's eye.

'So if we can we'll kill every last of the buggers, and if they can they'll kill every last one of us. As for me,' said Ender, 'I'm in favor of surviving'.

Your dream is a good one. [. . .] The desire that is the very root of life itself: To grow until all the space you can see is part of you, under your control. It's the desire for greatness.

If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time.

The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.

Even the most introverted person alive is constantly hungry for human association

Folks always seemed to think that as long as they didn't know about something bad, it wasn't happening, so whoever told them actually caused it to be true.

When you really know someone, you can't hate him.

You take a step, then another. That's the journey. But to take a step with your eyes open is not a journey at all, it's a remaking of your own mind.

Who would I be, if other good souls did not make up for my shortcomings?

Science isn't done by consensus. It's done by rigorous testing.

It's simple. Nothing exists except in relation to something else.

If only we were wiser or better people, perhaps the gods would explain to us the mad, unbearable things they do.

There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.

The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood.

[T]he politically correct are above the rules of ordinary civility, once they have identified you as an unbeliever in their religion.

Maybe we're the fools, for thinking we know things. Maybe humans are the only ones who can deal with the fact that nothing can ever be known at all.

The difference between science fiction and fantasy … is simply this: science fiction has rivets and fantasy has trees.

I've learned much, Father, and this above all: that no station in life is above any other, if it's occupied by someone with a good heart.

We don't admit it to ourselves, not until the very moment of death, but in that moment, we see all life before us and we understand how we chose, every day of our lives, the manner of our death.

Religion makes them crazy. Not a woman I ever met wasn't crazy with religion.

It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.