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.
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.
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.
Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.
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.
Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.
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.
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.
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.
Remember, the enemy's gate is down.
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.
I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
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.
Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.
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.
because if you can’t kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.
I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.
Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender.
Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.
If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you.
It's the teachers, they're the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other.
Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.
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
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.
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