Ender Wiggin Quotes

“No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.”
― Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead

“I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“Ender Wiggin isn't a killer. He just wins—thoroughly.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“If only we could have talked to you, the hive-queen said in Ender's words. But since it could not be, we ask only this: that you remember us, not as enemies, but as a tragic sisters, changed into foul shape by fate or God or evolution. If we had kissed, it would have been the miracle to make us human in each other's eyes. Instead we killed each other. But still we welcome you now as guestfriends. Come into our home, daughters of Earth; dwell in our tunnels, harvest our fields; what we cannot do, you are now our hands to do for us. Blossom, trees; ripen, fields; be warm for them, suns; be fertile for them, planets: they are our adopted daughters, and they have come home.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“There was no doubt now in Ender's mind. There was no help for him. Whatever he faced, now and forever, no on ewould save him from it. Peter might be scum, but Peter had been right, always right; the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“I thought commanders could order anything.”
"They can order the moon to turn blue, too, but it doesn't happen. Listen, Ender, commanders have just as much authority as you let them have. The more you obey them, the more power they have over you.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“Don't judge me until you understand me. You can't understand me if you've already judged me.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender in Exile

“I am a disbeliever in the unbelievable.”
― Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead

“Cover your butt. Bernard is watching.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“You get all the pleasures of the puppeteer.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“Come into our home, daughters of Earth; dwell in our tunnels, harvest our fields; what we cannot do, you are now our hands to do for us. Blossom, trees; ripen, fields; be warm for them, suns; be fertile for them, planets: they are our adopted daughters, and they have come home.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“Ender leaned his head against the wall of the corridor and cried until the bus came. I am just like Peter. Take my monitor away, and I am just like Peter.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“Home was merely a dull ache in the back of his memory. A tiredness in his eyes.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“Graff had isolated Ender to make him struggle. To make him prove, not that he was competent, but that he was far better than everyone else. That was the only way he could win respect and friendship. It made him a better soldier then he would ever have been otherwise. It also made him lonely, afraid, angry, untrusting. And maybe those traits, too, made him a better soldier.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“I think Bonzo died. I dreamed about it last night. I remembered the way he looked after I jammed his face with my head. I think I must have pushed his nose back into his brain. The blood was coming out of his eyes. I think he was dead right then.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“We people only live on the top, like the bugs that live on the scum of the still water near the shore.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“The highest beings of all are the ones who are willing to pay any personal cost for the good of those who need them.”
― Orson Scott Card

“I’m not one to despise other people for their sins. I haven’t found one yet, that I didn’t say to myself, I’ve done worse than this.”
― Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead

“We're going to make him the best military commander in history. And then put the fate of the world on his shoulders.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“The computer is also not famous for having mercy.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“I need to find out if I'm as good at peace as I am at war”
― Orson Scott Card

“En el momento en que entiendo verdaderamente a mi enemigo, en el momento en que le entiendo lo suficientemente bien como para derrotarle, entonces, en ese preciso instante, también le quiero. Creo que es imposible entender realmente a alguien, saber lo que quere, saber lo que cree, y no amarle como se ama a sí mismo.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“La Escuela de Batalla no nos ha creado, ya lo sabes. La Escuela de Batalla no crea nada. Solo destruye.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“El enemigo no son las otras escuadras. El enemigo son los profesores. Nos obligan a pelearnos unos con otros, a odiarnos unos a otros. Nos estamos matando, nos estamos volviendo locos intentando vencernos unos a otros, y, mientras tanto, esos desgraciados nos observan, nos estudian, descubren nuestros puntos débiles, deciden si somos suficientemente buenos o no. Buenos ¿para qué? (...) Ellos decidieron que yo era bueno para el programa, pero nadie me preguntó si el programa era bueno para mí.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“Me he hecho una idea de lo que es un niño, y nosotros no somos niños. Los niños pierden de vez en cuando, y a nadie le preocupa. Los niños no están en escuadras, no son comandantes, no mandan a máas de cuarenta chicos, eso es más de lo que un niño puede soportar sin volverse loco”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“Si sabes lo que es la locura, tal vez no caigas en ella.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“La semilla de la duda estaba ahí, y permaneció, y de vez en cuando echaba una pequeña raíz. Esa semilla que crecía lo cambió todo. Hizo que Ender prestara más atención a lo que la gente quería decir, no a lo que decía. Le hizo más sabio.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game