At last he came to a door, with these words in glowing emeralds: THE END OF THE WORLD He did not hesitate. He opened the door and stepped through.
As history shows us, when colonization is voluntary, people will self-select better than any testing system. It’s like those foolish attempts to control immigration to American based on the traits tha...
Any decent person who knows what warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart.
And it occurred to me that what we professors think of as a 'brilliant student' is nothing but a student who is enthusiastically converted to whatever idiotic ideas we've been teaching them.
All the common people want is to be left alone. All the ordinary soldier wants is to collect his pay and not get killed. That's why the great forces of history can be manipulated by astonishingly smal...
All is going well, very well, I couldn’t ask for anything better—So why do I hate my life?
To understand who a person really was, what his or her life really meant, the speaker for the dead would have to explain their self-story–what they meant to do, what they actually did, what they regre...
Saying you don't know or care about God is the same as saying you believe he doesn't exist, because if you had even a hope that he existed, you would care very much.
Nobody ever wrote to me sayingyou know ender's game was a pretty good book, but you know what it really needs a n introduction!.....so be assured the novel stands on its own, and if you skip this intr...
You're a monster.Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise?No, just a medal. The budget isn't inexhaustable.
Will people really go?' 'People always go. Always. They always believe they can make a better life than in the old world.
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...
We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar, except that he made himself a dictator, and died for it.
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...
Valentine had long ago observed that in a society that expected chastity and fidelity, like Lusitania, the adolescents who controlled and channeled their youthful passions were the ones who grew up to...
This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.
The warmth of mutual respect...Not the heat of anger or the ice of hate.
The problem with elections is that anybody who wants an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn’t have it. And anybody who does not want an office badly enough to run for it probably should...
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.
That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be allowed to have as many children as they like, and the surplus population should be sent to...