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Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools.

Orson Scott Card
Humanity, Needs, Tools
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.50, Macmillan

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.

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Humanity, Doe, Brilliant
FaceBook post by Orson Scott Card from Jul 08, 2013

Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside themselves.

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Heart, Soul, Humanity
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.1034, Macmillan

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.

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Freedom, Men, Humanity
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.50, Macmillan

Humanity does not ask to be happy.It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, and then happiness as we can manage it... Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work, , but your work is first, learning first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

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Ambition, Winning, Humanity
Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.173, Macmillan

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