The problem was, the people who should shut up were the ones talking the most.
If he did not speak his tale, it grew dank and musty, it shrank inside him, while with the telling the tale stayed fresh and virtuous.
As the proverb said, “Think in the morning, Act in the noon, Eat in the evening, Sleep in the night.” Too late for thinking now. Too early for eating.
Love and serve the sources of your strength.
Then he was done. He pulled away, rolled onto his back. “I’m sorry,” he said. “You’re welcome,” she said. She believed in answering what people meant, not what they said.
This was done to you by men and women whose only desire was to enslave you; they have succeeded so well that you are proud of your slavery.
There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will tell you what the enemy is going to do. No one but the enemy will ever teach you how to destroy and conquer. Only the enemy show you where you are weak. Only the enemy shows you where he is strong. And the rules of the game are what you can do to him and what you can stop him from doing to you. – Mazer Rackham.
One of Ender’s toonmates shook his head. “You dumb as a thumb.
I need to find out if I’m as good at peace as I am at war.
People are never fair, even when they try to be... and few are the ones who try.
Who was more cursed, the one who died, unknowing until the very moment of his death, or the one who watched his destruction as it approached, step by step, for days and weeks and years?
That’s the way of the world: The princess can disappear, but the witch is forever.
Famous at high school is like being employee of the month at the sanitation department.
Everybody thinks Hitler got to power because of his armies, because they were willing to kill, and that’s partly true, because in the real world power is always built on the threat of death and dishonor. But mostly he got to power on words, on the right words at the right time.
Maybe it isn’t based on what you deserve. Maybe it’s based on what you need.
Two trees – knowledge and life. You eat of the tree of knowledge, and you will surely die. You eat of the tree of life, and you remain a child in the garden forever, undying.
None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing. Or perhaps it’s just that none of us could be happy living with no other company than ourself.
One is never too old to be a student of the enemy.
What I’m telling you is, there’s some people who do things so bad it tears at the fabric of the world, and then there’s some people so sweet and good that they can feel it when the world gets torn.
Human beings didn’t evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing’s the first thing we learned.