Quotes About Humanity

Pueden engordarme, pueden arreglarme de pies a cabeza, vestirme y ponerme de nuevo guapa; pueden diseñar nuevas armas de ensueño que cobren vida en mis manos, pero nunca jamás me volverán a lavar el cerebro para que necesite usarlas. Ya no siento lealtad hacia esos monstruos llamados seres humanos, a pesar de ser uno de ellos.

It didn't occur to me until the next morning that the boy might have burned the bread on purpose. Might have dropped the loaves into the flames, knowing it meant being punished, and then delivered them to me. But I dismissed this. It must have been an accident. Why would he have done it? He didn't even know me. Still, just throwing me the bread was an enormous kindness that would have surely resulted in a beating if discovered. I couldn't explain his actions.

Ripred was right about you. He said I couldn't judge you like I would other humans.

Creo que Peeta dio con la tecla al comentar que nos destruyéramos entre nosotros para dejar que otra especie más decente ocupara nuestro lugar. Porque algo falla estrepitosamente en unas criaturas capaces de sacrificar a sus hijos para zanjar sus diferencias. Da igual cómo se justifique.

You've no right to starve people, to punish them for no reason. No right to take away their life and freedom. Those are things everyone is born with, and they're not yours for the taking. Winning a war doesn't give you that right. Having more weapons doesn't give you that right.

I'm not too upset to answer that." Peeta takes a deep breath and then looks straight into the camera. "I want everyone watching — whether you're on the Capitol or the rebel side — to stop for just a moment and think about what this war could mean. For human beings. We almost went extinct fighting one another before. Now our numbers are even fewer. Our conditions more tenuous.

You know what I won't miss? People. Except for a handful. They're mostly awful, if you think about it.

It certainly supports her view of humanity. Especially using the children." "And why is that?" "Because we credit them with innocence. And if even the most innocent among us turn into killers in the Hunger Games, what does that say? That our essential nature is violent." "Self-destructive.

Puedes echarles la culpa a las circunstancias, al entorno, pero las decisiones que tomaste las tomaste tú solo, sin ayuda de nadie. Ya sé que es mucho para asimilarlo todo de golpe. Sin embargo, es fundamental que hagas un esfuerzo por responder a esta pregunta: ¿quiénes somos los seres humanos? Porque quienes somos determina la clase de gobierno que necesitamos.

the more I come to know these people, the worse it is. Because, on the whole, I don't hate them. And some I like. And a lot of them are so damaged that my natural instinct would be to protect them. But

They certainly don't have a problem watching children being murdered every year. But maybe they know too much about the victors, especially the ones who've been celebrities for ages, to forget we're human beings. It's more like watching your own friends die. More like the Games are for those of us in the districts.

Ya no siento lealtad hacia estos monstruos llamados seres humanos, a pesar de ser uno de ellos.

I think there's a natural goodness built into human beings. You know when you've stepped across the line into evil, and it's your life's challenge to try and stay on the right side of that line.

Then the raw hunk of meat that used to be my enemy makes a sound, and I know where his mouth is. And I think the word he's trying to say is please. Pity, not vengeance, sends my arrow flying into his skull. Peeta

Pour l'instant nous sommes dans cette période bénie où chacun s'accorde à reconnaître que les horreurs récentes ne devraient jamais se répéter. Mais la mémoire collective est généralement de courte durée. Nous sommes des êtres versatiles, stupides, amnésiques et doués d'un immense talent d'autodestruction.

Stenen besegrar alltid människan (s. 176).

But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction

I'm not convinced that we are all as inherently violent as you say, but it takes very little to bring the beast to the surface, at least under the cover of darkness.

You know how to kill." "Not people," I say. "How different can it be, really?" says Gale grimly.

That's who he was at heart. A protector. I don't think he would've ever won the Games, because he'd have died trying to protect Lucy Gray." "Oh, like a dog or something." Lepidus nodded. "A really good one." "No, not like a dog. Like a human being." said Lysistrata

I make a list in my head of every act of goodness I've seen someone do. It's like a game. Repetitive. Even a little tedious after more than twenty years. But there are much worse games to play.

The Covey believe you're put on earth to reduce the misery, not add to it. Do you think the Hunger Games are right?" she asked.

Is this really what we want to do? Kill ourselves off completely? In the hopes that — what? Some decent species will inherit the smoking remains of the earth?

There won't be enough of us left to keep going. If everybody doesn't lay down their weapons — and I mean, as in very soon — it's all over, anyway.