Quotes from Enders Game...

-Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

-"There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you."

-"Human beings are free except when humanity needs them."

-"Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive."
"That's a lie."
"No. It's just a half truth. You can worry about the other half after we win this war."

-He was a soldier, and if anyone had asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up, he wouldn't have known what they meant.

-Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to 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."

-"Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it."

-"I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it."