People get used to anything, if it just goes on.
Orson Scott CardTags: life
I didn't want to hurt him!" Ender cried. "Why didn't he just leave me alone!
Orson Scott CardI've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.
Orson Scott CardTags: innocence children corruption maturity losing
In my experience, influence is power.
Orson Scott CardBut shouldn't they still act like children? They aren't normal. They act like--history. Napoleon and Wellington. Caesar and Brutus.
Orson Scott CardTags: history children loss-of-innocence
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 the cause is sufficient, spend our own lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to save our buddies in the foxhole. We rise out of the trenches and charge the entrenched enemy and die like maggots under a blowtorch. We strap bombs on our bodies and blow ourselves up in the midst of our enemies. We are, when the cause is sufficient, insane.
Orson Scott CardTags: human-nature sacrifice bean value-of-life buggers
Do not be disingenuous with me, Colonel Graff. Americans are quite apt at playing stupid when they choose to, but I am not to be deceived.
Orson Scott CardI'm hurting you to make you a better soldier in every way. To sharpen your wit. To intensify your effort. To keep you off balance, never sure what's going to happen next, so you always have to be ready for anything, ready to improvise, determined to win no matter what. I'm also making you miserable.
Orson Scott CardTags: suffering honest cruel better
He had brought no possessions with him; he would take none away. There were none to have--everything of value was in the school computer or his own head and hands.
Orson Scott CardTags: materialism value possession
Is it some law of human nature that you inevitably become whatever your first commander was?
Orson Scott CardTags: human-nature
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