Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Memorize that defense. PLAY AGAIN? All quotes are in chronological order, which should make them easier to find if you are looking for a specific one. But do believe me, my dear friend, touching her heart is like bathing in ice. But when the other person doesnt yet know that he needs your wisdom, you keep it to yourself. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head before they shoot me. If it had just been those other guys, I would have made my stand and fought to the death. "Oh, you ARE the charmer"-petra to achilles, So fine kill me tonight. I haven't had breakfast yet. I thought: If I could just make a good family, if I could just learn to be to other children, their whole lives, what Andrew was, coming so late into ours, then that would mean more in the long run, it would be a finer accomplishment than anything I could ever do with my mind or my hands, The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. This is perfection. Only the enemy shows you where you are weak. ", "And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves? Or maybe its just that you cant really know them until you stop hating them.. What matters is which fiction you believe. We're saving the world, after all. There is no teacher but the enemy. You have never had a The story first appeared as a novella, which Card expanded into a series of books. My job isn't to be friends. Only the enemy tells you where he is strong. Quote 35: "Don't be alone. In the whole history of the world. He luxuriated in the sound of high language well spoken. \"Ender Wiggin, if it were just a matter of choosing thebest and happiest future for you, I'd tell you to stay home.Stay here, grow up, be happy. This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question., No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. Ender's Game is a science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card, who was inspired by Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" series. It happens that a husband finds proof that morning of his wife's adultery, and a mob carries her to the marketplace to stone her to death. There is no teacher but the enemy. "If the buggers get him, they'll make me look like his favorite uncle." We are the ones who rise and fall. p.525, "All the stories are fictions. No one but the enemy will tell you what the enemy is going to do. Because you tremble even now. View My Guestbook Ender's Game is a 1985 military science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card. author. But my foot going into your face, you can't take that away from me.-petra thinking to herself, "Your the winner" There is no trophy. -Dink." Thats how they make up for being so stupid and having such short lives and small memories. p.437-439, "You're only so sure you're right because they're so sure you're wrong." We reward altruists. He did not hesitate. No one but the enemy will ever tell you what the enemy is going to do. ", "Forget it, Mazer. Ender Wiggin lay on his bed staring at the ceiling. We've devoted our lives to learning about them!" He opened the door and stepped through, "Well, I'm your man. - Ender Wiggin. -Beans thoughts, "Like Alexander, hell go out with a flash of brilliant light and live forever in glory, instead of withering away and dying in miserable obscurity, getting trotted out for parades now and then. In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy. Silence. But with you here, I had no choice but to give myself up. What a person had in mind. You could get used to each other, get so habituated that you could speak their words right along with them, but you never knew why other people said what they did, because they never even knew themselves. Welcome back. -William Bee, "You made them hate me." ", "Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be. Individually, human beings are all dolts. You'll perform your Questionable Activities to help out the poor little piggies, but there isn't a chance in the world you'll notice when they have something to teach you., You understand that the piggies are animals, and you no more condemn them for murdering Libo and Pipo than you condemn a cabra for shewing up capim. Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty., Dona Crista laughed a bit. ", to understand who a person really was, what his or her life really meant, the speaker for the dead would have to explain their self-storywhat they meant to do, what they actually did, what they regretted, what they rejoiced in. Click here to see news regarding the new Ender's Game movie. It wasnt a matter of confession, penance, and absolution, like the priests offered. 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