Why should I worry about uncreating so much of human history? Why should I care that it will be worse than forgotten, that it will be unknown? Why should that seem to be a crime, when all of human his...
Why do we persist in this divided idiocy? Because the world is full of prideful bastards, that’s why. Everyone believes they’re smarter than everyone else, more capable than everyone else, more justif...
Whoop-de-do, said Ram.What?I'm celebrating.Was that irony or loss of mental function? asked the expendable.Was that a rhetorical questions, a bit of humor, or a sign that you are losing confidence in...
What I want, he said softly, is to stand in this meadow and walk in the light of the sun.
We have discussed your definition, analyzed its ramifications to a reasonable depth, and accept it, said the expendable.Meaning I gave you what you wanted?Ambition and desire are human traits. You gav...
The tribe is whatever we believe it is. If we say the tribe is all the Little Ones in the forest, and all the trees, then that is what the tribe is. Even though some of the oldest trees here came from...
The society whose citizens are willing to stand and fight is the one with the best chance of surviving long enough for history to even notice.
The old tale of Sleeping Beauty might end happily in French or English, but he was in Russia, and only a fool would want to live through the Russian version of any fairy tale.
The humans build their stupid fence to keep us out, but that is nothing. The sky is our fence! Human leapt upward—startlingly high, for his legs were powerful. Look how the fence throws me back down t...
Thank you for this, Peter. For dry eyes and silent weeping. You taught me how to hide anything I felt. More than ever, I need that now.
Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.
Nobody has control of anything. We're all beggars at the throne of fate. But sometimes he has mercy!
No point in getting emotional about anything. Being emotional didn't help with survival. What mattered was to learn everything, analyze the situation, choose a course of action, and then move boldly....
No matter how well you know what a person has done and what he thought he was doing when he did it and what he now thinks of what he did, it is impossible to be certain of what he will do next.
It's the most charming thing about humans. You are all so sure that the lesser animals are bleeding with envy because they didn't have the good fortune to be born Homo sapiens.
It had to be a trick or you couldn’t have done it. It’s the bind we were in. We had to have a commander with so much empathy that he would think like the buggers, understand them and anticipate them....
Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive. That’s a lie. No. It’s just a half truth. You can worry about the other half after we win this war.
I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.
I've thought of all the questions, said Father.That only means you've stopped trying to think of new ones.
I thought speakers didn't believe in sin, said a sullen boy.Andrew smiled. You believe in sin, Styrka, and you do things because of that belief. So sin is real in you, and knowing you, this speaker mu...