Ender Wiggin isn't a killer. He just wins thoroughly.

Early to bed and early to rise$$$ Mazer intoned$$$ "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes."

Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.

One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

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

As long as you keep getting born$$$ it's all right to die sometimes.

Intellectual understanding does not always bring visceral belief.

We care about moral issues$$$ nobility$$$ decency$$$ happiness$$$ goodness -- the issues that matter in the real world$$$ but which can only be addressed$$$ in their purity$$$ in fiction.

Quim$$$ she said$$$ "don't ever try to teach me about good and evil. I've been there$$$ and you've seen nothing but a map."

What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did$$$ or we'd be dead$$$ and the tigers would own the earth.