Ender's Game

Book · 6 characters · 625 quotes · 1985

Quotes from Ender's Game

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"Winning is not about destroying the enemy. It's about changing their hearts and minds."
Orson Scott Card (Narrator) Peace
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"I'm not a killer. I'm a teacher."
Ender Wiggin Education
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"He is too much a leader. Even the older boys respect him."
Graff Leadership
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"Children are not as stupid as you seem to think."
Ender Wiggin Education
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"The way to win is to find the enemy's weakness and exploit it."
Mazer Rackham Leadership
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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."
Ender Wiggin Wisdom
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"I'm a killer, then. I'm really a killer."
Ender Wiggin War
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"Fear is the tool of those who have power."
Orson Scott Card (Narrator) Fear
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"Buggers aren't bugs, they're just different."
Ender Wiggin
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"Winning was everything, and I was the only one capable of it."
Ender Wiggin Success
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"I am not the person they made me out to be."
Ender Wiggin
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"The more you know about your enemy, the more you can predict him."
Ender Wiggin
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"Isolation is a powerful thing."
Orson Scott Card (Narrator)
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"They needed a weapon, so they built me."
Ender Wiggin Power
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"There's a pattern in all things, and when you see it, you can see what's coming."
Ender Wiggin Knowledge
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"Control of the battle is the key to victory."
Graff Leadership
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"The mind of a child is a beautiful thing."
Mazer Rackham Education
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"I didn't want to fight anymore. But I'm very good at it."
Ender Wiggin Strength
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"Ender's Game is a strategy, not a solution."
Orson Scott Card (Narrator) War
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"You could see the intelligence in his eyes, something sharp and clever."
Orson Scott Card (Narrator) Wisdom
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"Compassion is a tool that has to be kept sharp or it won't work when you need it."
Orson Scott Card (Narrator) Kindness
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"I am the way I am because of what I've been through, not because of who I want to be."
Ender Wiggin Change
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"The way to win is to find the pattern in things."
Mazer Rackham Knowledge
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"Games are the only thing that's real."
Ender Wiggin Truth
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"In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that moment I also love him."
Ender Wiggin Leadership
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"Knocking people down, even when you have good intentions, is still knocking people down."
Ender Wiggin Wisdom
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"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."
Ender Wiggin Love
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"I loved them all."
Ender Wiggin
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"A game can teach only lessons about games."
Ender Wiggin Education
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"I have become death."
Ender Wiggin