Ender Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

  James Agate

  New Year, Years, Great Year

  James Agate (1946). “A Shorter Ego: Ego 4, Ego 5, Ego 6”

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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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• 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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• Since when do you have to tell the enemy when he has won?

  Orson Scott Card

  Enemy, Enders Game

  "Ender's Game". Ch. 14: Ender's Teacher. Book by Orson Scott Card, 1985.

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• If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.

  Orson Scott Card

  Inspirational, Success, Motivational Work

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

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• I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.

  Orson Scott Card

  Eye, Ears, Enders Game

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

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• I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first. - Ender

  Orson Scott Card

  Care, Tests, Firsts

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.216, 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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• The world is always a democracy in times of flux, and the man with the best voice will win.

  Orson Scott Card

  Fear, Winning, Men

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.91, Macmillan

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• So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.

  Orson Scott Card

  War, Enders Game, Whole

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

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• I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.

  Orson Scott Card

  Fighting, Winning, Enders Game

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.21, Macmillan

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• Ender Wiggin must believe that no matter what happens, no adult will ever, ever step in to help him in any way.

  Orson Scott Card

  Believe, Adults, Matter

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.157, Macmillan

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• Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

  Bill Vaughan

  Motivational, Christmas, New Year

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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