Ender Quotes

• Ender didn't like fighting. He didn't like Peter's kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn't like his own kind either, the smart against the stupid.

  Orson Scott Card

  Strong, Smart, Stupid

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.30, Macmillan

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• Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools.

  Orson Scott Card

  Humanity, Needs, Tools

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.50, Macmillan

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• 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.

  Orson Scott Card

  Lying, Lakes, Order

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.183, Macmillan

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• Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

  Orson Scott Card

  Lying, Sometimes, Enders Game

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow”, p.20, Macmillan

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• In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.

  Orson Scott Card

  Love, Believe, Thinking

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.152, Macmillan

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• Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.

  Orson Scott Card

  Freedom, Men, Humanity

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.50, Macmillan

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• An enemy, Ender Wiggin," whispered the old man. "I am your enemy, the first one you've ever had who was smarter than you. 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 shows you where you are weak. Only the enemy tells 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. I am your enemy from now on. From now on I am your teacher.

  Orson Scott Card

  Teacher, Strong, Men

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• I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.

  Orson Scott Card

  Clever, Stupid, Thinking

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.154, Macmillan

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• He could see Bonzo's anger growing hot. Hot anger was bad. Ender's anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo's was hot, and so it used him.

  Orson Scott Card

  Hot, Use, Growing

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.84, Macmillan

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• Remember, the enemy's gate is down.

  Orson Scott Card

  Enemy, Remember, Enders Game

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.216, Macmillan

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• Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you.

  Orson Scott Card

  Love You, Race, People

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.192, Macmillan

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• I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it

  Orson Scott Card

  Pain, Who I Am, Long

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set I: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon”, p.166, Macmillan

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• Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

  Oprah Winfrey

  New Year, Cheer, New Beginnings

  FaceBook post by Oprah Winfrey from Jan 03, 2012

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• There was no doubt now in Ender's mind. There was no help for him. Whatever he faced, now and forever, no one would save him from it. Peter might be scum, but Peter had been right, always right; the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.

  Orson Scott Card

  Pain, Forever, Doubt

  "Ender's Game". Book by Orson Scott Card, 1985.

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• Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.

  Orson Scott Card

  Inspirational, Life, Identity

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.148, Macmillan

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• In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

  Orson Scott Card

  Enemy, Defeat, Enders Game

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.152, Macmillan

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• because if you can’t kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.

  Orson Scott Card

  Enders Game, Subjects, Ifs

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.137, Macmillan

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• I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

  Orson Scott Card

  Believe, Thinking, Want

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.152, Macmillan

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• Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender.

  Orson Scott Card

  Race, Welcome, Enders Game

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set II: Ender's Game, Ender in Exile, Speak for the Dead”, p.160, Macmillan

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• Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.

  Orson Scott Card

  Humanity, Doe, Brilliant

  FaceBook post by Orson Scott Card from Jul 08, 2013

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• If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you.

  Orson Scott Card

  Trying, Stories, Fellows

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.160, Macmillan

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• It's the teachers, they're the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other.

  Orson Scott Card

  Teacher, Hate, Fighting

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.80, Macmillan

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

  Orson Scott Card

  Stupid, Eye, Men

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.206, Macmillan

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• There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you

  Orson Scott Card

  Hate, Enders Game, Stop Hating

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.38, Macmillan

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• Be proud, Bonito, pretty boy. You can go home and tell your father, Yes, I beat up Ender Wiggin, who was barely ten years old, and I was thirteen. And I had only six of my friends to help me, and somehow we managed to defeat him, even though he was naked and wet and alone--Ender Wiggin is so dangerous and terrifying it was all we could do not to bring two hundred.

  Orson Scott Card

  Father, Home, Boys

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.136, Macmillan

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