Ender's Game

Book · 6 characters · 625 quotes · 1985

Quotes from Ender's Game

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"We are not actually enemies, and we never were."
Mazer Rackham Peace
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"I have to know how to lead without anyone knowing I'm leading them."
Ender Wiggin Leadership
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"Ender's Game isn't a game at all."
Graff
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"I could see how someone might look at my life and say I had no childhood at all."
Ender Wiggin Education
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"The game is never over. It's only a matter of finding the next move."
Graff
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"A leader is someone who does what he believes is right, consequences be damned."
Mazer Rackham Leadership
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"The humans didn't want to destroy us. They wanted to destroy the buggers."
Ender Wiggin Truth
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"In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, I'm ready to forgive him."
Ender Wiggin Wisdom
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"I'm not a killer. I never wanted to kill anyone. I'm not a killer."
Ender Wiggin
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"The human race is unique in its ability to betray itself."
Orson Scott Card (Narrator) Philosophy
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"Forgive me."
Ender Wiggin
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"You contain the capacity for anything."
Mazer Rackham
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"The patterns of this war repeat endlessly."
Orson Scott Card (Narrator) History
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"I speak the truth when no one else will."
Ender Wiggin Courage
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"He was given the choice to stay or leave, and he chose duty."
Orson Scott Card (Narrator) Perseverance
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"The game always knew what he was capable of."
Orson Scott Card (Narrator)
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"I will not believe that we can't win."
Ender Wiggin Hope
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"They couldn't have found anyone better."
Orson Scott Card (Narrator)
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"The boy is ready."
Graff Education
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"Peter will control everything when I'm gone."
Valentine Wiggin Politics
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"I don't think they expected this of him."
Orson Scott Card (Narrator)
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"His genius was not a gift. It was a weapon."
Orson Scott Card (Narrator) Strength
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"This is the way the human race has always worked."
Orson Scott Card (Narrator) History
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"You always were intelligent, Ender."
Mazer Rackham Knowledge
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"In the game, he was not constrained by moral law."
Orson Scott Card (Narrator) Philosophy
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"They made me do what they wanted."
Ender Wiggin
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"The politicians will use you too."
Valentine Wiggin Politics
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"I am very small and afraid, but I must know the truth."
Ender Wiggin Courage
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"Ender is a killer, a maker of the rules."
Graff Power
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"Nothing he was told was true except the war."
Orson Scott Card (Narrator)