Ender's Game

"We are the only race that wages war against ourselves."

"Being a leader means being willing to make the hard choices."

"I understand them. Now I can kill them."

"What we do to children, we do to the future."

"I didn't want to win. I just didn't want to lose."

"Fear of the unknown is the greatest weapon."

"The only way to end this is to think beyond the game."

"I am not the boy you wanted me to be."

"Adults are the ones who can suspend their disbelief without reservation."

"You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death."

"They're not even human. We're not even human anymore."

"I didn't start this war, and I won't end it by losing."

"The end justifies the means."

"If we're monsters, then we need a monster to lead us."

"The way to be a leader is to have people want to follow you."

"I could see how someone might think that humanity deserves to survive, but I wasn't sure."

"We've known for centuries now that there's no such thing as free will."

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

"A child's body is the only weapon needed."

"There's no teacher but the enemy. No one to tell you what you've done wrong, just eventual failure."

"The enemy's gate is down."

"Control is the game, and the game is what we do here."

"I am not the man who wanted to learn the Buggers' perspective. I think now I was a fool to imagine that I could."

"The difference between us and the Buggers is that we can afford individual variation."

"Slavery began when the first men decided they were superior to women."

"Most of the commanders were stronger than Ender. But Ender knew how to think."

"Ender's Game is played seriously by children in order to prepare them for leadership, but it is also played with a kind of abandon."

"The way to win is find out what the other person is trying to do, and don't let them do it."

"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 want to be loved."