All 50 Uses of
Demosthenes
in
Ender's Game
- Locke and Demosthenes "I DIDN'T CALL you in here to waste time.†
Chpt 9
- Think what Pericles did in Athens, and Demosthenes.†
Chpt 9 *
- Pericles, yes, but Demosthenes was right about Philip.†
Chpt 9
- Her main identity on the nets was Demosthenes.†
Chpt 9
- People will be shocked that Demosthenes and Locke are two kids, but they'll already be used to listening to us.†
Chpt 9
- They had been doing it only seven months when one of the west coast nets sent Demosthenes a message.†
Chpt 9
- What I can't figure out is why they wanted Demosthenes before Locke.†
Chpt 9
- But Valentine didn't like some of the positions Peter made Demosthenes take.†
Chpt 9
- Demosthenes began to develop as a fairly paranoid antiWarsaw writer.†
Chpt 9
- By having her write Demosthenes, it meant he also had some empathy, just as Locke also could play on others fears.†
Chpt 9
- She couldn't go off and use Demosthenes for her own purposes.†
Chpt 9
- Without meaning to, Valentine started talking in Demosthenes' voice, even though she certainly wasn't speaking Demosthenes' opinions.†
Chpt 9
- Without meaning to, Valentine started talking in Demosthenes' voice, even though she certainly wasn't speaking Demosthenes' opinions.†
Chpt 9
- I like this Demosthenes.†
Chpt 9
- He doesn't think that you're really Demosthenes, and Demosthenes isn't saying things you really believe.†
Chpt 9
- He doesn't think that you're really Demosthenes, and Demosthenes isn't saying things you really believe.†
Chpt 9
- it was the fact that Father actually agreed with Demosthenes.†
Chpt 9
- A few days later Locke got picked up for a column in a New England newsnet, specifically to provide a contrasting view for their popular column from Demosthenes.†
Chpt 9
- I'm going to say snide things about Demosthenes in my first column.†
Chpt 9
- Well, Demosthenes isn't even going to notice that Locke exists.†
Chpt 9
- Someone had recently published a savage commentary on the Demosthenes' collected writings.†
Chpt 9
- The commentary, and therefore her work, had been discussed on the open conference of the international relations net, with some of the most important people of the day attacking and defending Demosthenes.†
Chpt 9
- What worried her most was the comment of an Englishman: "Whether he likes it or not, Demosthenes cannot remain incognito forever.†
Chpt 9
- Valentine was afraid, that enough powerful people had been annoyed by the vicious persona of Demosthenes that she would indeed be tracked down.†
Chpt 9
- That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws.†
Chpt 9
- "The most noble title any child can have," Demosthenes wrote, "is Third."†
Chpt 9
- Which one is Demosthenes?†
Chpt 13
- All this time we've been worried, all the time we've been trying to persuade the Russians not to take Demosthenes too seriously, we held up Locke as proof that Americans weren't all crazy warmongers.†
Chpt 13
- That Demosthenes and Locke aren't as much under our control as the Wiggin.†
Chpt 13
- Demosthenes is definitely the girl, but Graff says the girl was rejected for Battle School because she was too pacific, too conciliatory, and above all, too empathic.†
Chpt 13
- Definitely not Demosthenes.†
Chpt 13
- Make no report at this time except that we have determined that Locke and Demosthenes have no foreign connections and have no connections with any domestic group, either, except those publicly declared on the nets.†
Chpt 13
- I know Demosthenes seems dangerous, in part because he.†
Chpt 13
- There's always the chance that Demosthenes is right.†
Chpt 13
- We'd better have Demosthenes around.†
Chpt 13
- In spite of all her misgivings, Valentine was having fun being Demosthenes.†
Chpt 13
- Every now and then she and Peter would, in Demosthenes' name, donate a carefully calculated sum to a particular candidate or cause: enough money that the donation would be noticed, but not so much that the candidate would feel she was trying to buy a vote.†
Chpt 13
- The fun fetters, from national and international leaders, sometimes hostile, sometimes friendly, always diplomatically trying to pry into Demosthenes' mind.†
Chpt 13
- Father was reading Demosthenes regularly; he never read Locke, or if he did, he said nothing about it.†
Chpt 13
- At dinner, though, he would often regale them with some telling point Demosthenes had made in that day's column.†
Chpt 13
- At school, she once nearly got them in trouble, when her history teacher assigned the class to write a paper contrasting the views of Demosthenes and Locke as expressed in two of their early columns.†
Chpt 13
- As a result, she had to work hard to talk the principal out of having her essay published on the very newsnet that carried Demosthenes' column.†
Chpt 13
- You write too much like Demosthenes, you can't get published, I should kill Demosthenes now, you're getting out of control.†
Chpt 13
- You write too much like Demosthenes, you can't get published, I should kill Demosthenes now, you're getting out of control.†
Chpt 13
- It happened when Demosthenes was invited to take part in the President's Council on Education for the Future, a blue-ribbon panel that was designed to do nothing, but do it splendidly.†
Chpt 13
- "Turn it down," he said, "Why should I?" she asked, "It's no work at all, and they even said that because of Demosthenes' well-known desire for privacy, they would net all the meetings.†
Chpt 13
- It makes Demosthenes into a respectable person, and.†
Chpt 13
- Peter, it isn't you and me, it's Demosthenes and Locke.†
Chpt 13
- Besides, this appointment doesn't mean they like Demosthenes better than Locke, it just means that Demosthenes has a much stronger base of support.†
Chpt 13
- Besides, this appointment doesn't mean they like Demosthenes better than Locke, it just means that Demosthenes has a much stronger base of support.†
Chpt 13
Definition:
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(Demosthenes) Athenian statesman and orator who took his life rather than be arrested (circa 385-322 BC)