108 quotes found
“Let's fly away and live forever”
“Everything we do means something.”
“We have to go. I'm almost happy here.”
“In my experience, influence is power.”
“Maybe that's who you are, what you remember.”
“From you I can learn things that nobody knows.”
“Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.”
“I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.”
“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; th...”
“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're a monster.Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise?No, just a medal. The budget isn't inexhaustable.”
“Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.”
“I have hope for you, if only because you're the only one left to hope for.”
“[That wall] might be breached sometime in the future, but for now the only real conversation between them was the roots that had already grown low and deep, under the wall, where they could not be ...”
“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 next day he passed Alai in the corridor, and they greeted each other, touched hands, talked, but they both knew that there was a wall there now.It might be breached, that wall, sometime in the ...”
“In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.”
“So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.”
“Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs meto find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender,...”
“Panem et Circenses translates into 'Bread and Circuses.' The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and theref...”
“They have influence, but no power." "In my experience, influence is power.”
“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 one will ever save you.”
“As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what "just living" might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway.”
“There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.”
“While you're governing the colony and I'm writing political philosophy, They'll never guess that in the darkness of night we sneak into each other's room and play checkers and have pillow fights.”
