Enders Game Quotes:

Remember, the enemy's gate is down.

- Orson Scott Card

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

topic: Enemy, Remember, Enders Game, Ender

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

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

topic: Fighting, Winning, Enders Game, Ender, Game Book

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

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

topic: Enders Game, Subjects, Ifs, Ender, Ender Wiggin

'I could kill you like this,' Peter whispered. 'Just press and press until you're dead'.

- Orson Scott Card

source: Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.35, Macmillan

topic: Ruthlessness, Enders Game, Peter

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

topic: Enemy, Defeat, Moments, Ender, Ender Wiggin

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

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Humanity, Doe, Brilliant, Ender, Enders Game

There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.

- Orson Scott Card

source: Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.90, Macmillan

topic: Inspirational, World, Changing The World, Rearranging, Enders Game

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

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Inspirational, Life, Identity, Ender, Enders Game

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

topic: Care, Tests, Firsts, Ender, Enders Game

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

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

topic: Lying, Lakes, Order, Ender, Ender Wiggin

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

- Orson Scott Card

topic: War, Ender, Enders Game

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

topic: Hate, Hate You, Stop Hating, Ender, Enders Game

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

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Race, Welcome, Ender, Enders Game

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

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Teacher, Hate, Fighting, Ender, Enders Game

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

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Enemy, Ender, Enders Game

The world is always a democracy in times of flux, and the man with the best voice will win.

- Orson Scott Card

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

topic: Fear, Winning, Men, Ender, Enders Game

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

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Eye, His Eyes, Ears, Ender, Enders Game

Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Children, Years, People, Enders Game

Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Lying, Sometimes, Dependable, Ender, Enders Game

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

topic: Teacher, Strong, Men, Ender, Ender Wiggin

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

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

topic: Hot, Use, Growing, Ender, Enders Game

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

topic: Believe, Thinking, Want, Ender, Ender Wiggin

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Freedom, Men, Humanity, Ender, Enders Game

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

topic: Inspirational, Success, Trying, Inspired To Work, Ender

There was no doubt now in Ender's mind. There was no help for him. Whatever he faced, now and forever, no on ewould 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

topic: Pain, Forever, Doubt, Ender, Ender Wiggin

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

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Pain, Who I Am, Long, Ender, Ender Wiggin

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

topic: Clever, Stupid, Thinking, Ender, Ender Wiggin