A quote...again...

another excerpt from 'Speaker for the Dead'...

"When you really know somebody, you can't hate them."
"Or maybe it's just that you can't really know them until you stop hating them."
"Is that a circular paradox? Dom Cristao says most truth can only be expressed in circular paradoxes."
"I don't think it has anything to do with truth, Olhado. It's cause and effect. We never can sort them out. Science refuses to admit any cause except first cause-knock down one domino, the one next to it also falls. But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person had in mind. Once you understand what people really want, you can't hate them anymore. You can fear them, but you can't hate them, because you can always find the same desires in your heart."
-conversation between Ender and Olhado

"They aren't stupid," said the Speaker. "This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe, and those we never think to question."
-Ender to Human