America is an empire that does not wish to be one ; we are easily discouraged from doing what must be done to maintain the global order that allows d….

She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little girl she had said - to the con….

We were all fated to die, and so it is good that at least we can be sure our deaths today might bring about a good end, might make the world a better….

I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the ….

That's what so many people didn't understand about life. The real world is the one within the walls of homes; the outside world, of careers and polit….

Oops, I thought. Oops is an all-purpose word standing for every bit of profanity, blasphemy, and pornographic and scatological execration I could thi….

But I fear that I also underestimate the stupidity of the rest of mankind. Are we absolutely sure that we ought to win this war?.

Americans love to pick up, move on, start over. But instead of being somebody fresh and new, they become somebody lonely and lost, or, far too often ….

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..

I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school..

My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer..

You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you ar….

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people w….

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing..

Come into our home, daughters of Earth; dwell in our tunnels, harvest our fields; what we cannot do, you are now our hands to do for us. Blossom, tre….

As history shows us, when colonization is voluntary, people will self-select better than any testing system. It’s like those foolish attempts to cont….

If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault..

It is possible to have words come to your mind, and still refrain from speaking them aloud..

Truth, when we are fortunate enough to find it, is like bad-tasting medicine. It rarely comes as a pleasant surprise, because if it surprises us, it ….

Unfortunately, we live in a time when the media are almost a monoculture..

If words can be lethal weapons, I must provide them with an arsenal..