The Buggers have finally, finally learned that we humans value each and every individual human life... But they've learned this lesson just in time for it to be hopelessly wrong—for we humans do, when...
Just because they didn't know they were killing human beings doesn't mean they weren't killing human beings.
I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.
I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.
It seemed a part of her life, to step from the ancient to the modern, back and forth. She felt rather sorry for those who knew only one and not the other. It was better, she thought, to be able to sel...
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.
We don't punish the ones who fail. They just-don't go on,
Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.
If you lay a hand on me I'll ram your testicles so far up inside your abdomen it'll take a heart surgeon to get them out.
I don't freeze up because it isn't my battle. I'm helping. I'm watching. But I'm free. Because it's Ender's game.
Ender didn't like fighting. He didn't like Peter's kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn't like his own kind either, the smart against the stupid.
I imagine it feels like bathing in ice to the person touching her. But how does it feel to her? Cold as she is, it must surely burn like fire.
That is the earth, he thought. Not a globe thousands of kilometers around, but a forest with a shining lake, a house hidden at the crest of a hill, high in the trees, a grassy slope leading upwards fr...
Mine mine mine. That was the curse and power of human beings—that what they saw and loved they had to have. They could share it with other people but only if they conceived of those people as being so...
I cut the wood however I like, but it's the grain that decides the strength and shape of it. You can add and subtract memories from people, but it isn't just your memory that makes you who you are. Th...
Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.
Human beings remain grubs all the lives.
We have to go. I'm almost happy here.
He was discovered with his feet stuck to the ceiling in the bathroom with his head stuffed in the toilet...
A person is what he says and does; that's how you learn whether his reputation was earned or manufactured.