Good people do not let others suffer needlessly.

It's simple. Nothing exists except in relation to something else.

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

This is the Speaker for the Dead? Judging someone by appearances?" "Maybe I've fallen in love with Grego." "You've always been a sucker for people who pee on you.

He's not a killer. He just wins... Thoroughly

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

Civilisation is only a pretense. In crisis we have become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and instead becoming the hairy primate at the mouth of the cave, screeching at the enemy wishing it would go away, fingering the heavy stone we will use the moment it comes close enough