Every day people judge all other people. The question is whether they judge wisely.

And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?

Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.

The nations that offer to arbitrate are the ones that think they should rule the world.

"We've devoted our lives to learning about them!" Miro said. Ender stopped. "Not from them."

A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.

Oh, I'll live Ender's life, too. It's so much more interesting than my own." ~Val