Ender's Game

"You think like a commander. That's what we need."

"The most important thing in the world is the right thing."

"I will be kinder to humanity than it deserves."

"Ender's Game is designed this way: to find somebody smarter than anybody else."

"He is too much a weapon now. He has been shaped into a tool of war."

"Games are the only environment where I think I can operate without constantly conflicting with everyone."

"The way to win is to find out what the other side is doing and do it better."

"In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that 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."

"The quote about Mazer Rackham's strategy"

"Zero gravity allows for infinite tactics."

"This is the place where they're creating the greatest military mind of all time."

"I'll be whatever they want me to be."

"He was better than all of them, and he knew it."

"The adults were playing with children."

"They will never trust me to command anything again."

"Winning is not about being the smartest—it's about being willing to do what others won't."

"I am not a killer. You didn't make me a killer."

"The human factor is what makes this possible."

"Children are more flexible, more teachable, more capable of learning."

"He understood warfare intuitively."

"When you can go faster than light, you can go back in time."

"The nice thing about having a reputation for being brilliant is that no one expects you to be human."

"Politics is your greatest teacher."

"They chose me because I'm smarter than you and almost as ruthless."

"I destroyed a world."

"You didn't break any rules. You just destroyed the enemy."

"The children were soldiers."

"They were not using him—he was using them."

"He was ten years old when we recruited him for the Battle School."