A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.

A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.

For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence.

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

Humor is the mask of wisdom.

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand

News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.

The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.

Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.

Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.

It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.

Her legs are two rivers, and the delta where they bleed into each other is the well of ecstasy.

My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.

Make sure that your kids or the kids in your life have an opportunity to share their ideas, and to teach you something about what we know.

My favourite part... I guess it's my legs.

When thus the heart is in a vein Of tender thought, the simplest strain Can touch it with peculiar power.

The whole history of life is a record of cycles.

One place comprehended can make us understand other places better.

Leave him! I said. I never mean to. I am going with him, if he climbs to the Moon; and if any of these Black Riders try to stop him, they'll have Sam Gamgee to reckon with, I said. They laughed.

Among living artists, George Condo may be the most embraced by the powers that be.

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