Quotes About Society

People don't need wings to survive" "Mockingjays do.

I have not wept since the death of my parents," said Luxa quietly. "But I am thought to be unnatural in this respect.

It's a saying from thousands of years ago, written in a language called Latin about a place called Rome," he explains. "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 therefore their power.

Who are human beings? Because who we are determines the type of governing we need.

Dean Casca Highbottom, the man credited with the creation of the Hunger Games,

Win and rain might wash away the blood stains but Capitol hands would not.

Panem et circenses quiere decir «pan y circo». El que lo escribió se refería a que, a cambio de tener la barriga llena y entretenimiento, su gente había renunciado a sus responsabilidades políticas y, por tanto, a su poder.

Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains." — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract, 1762

Frankly, our ancestors don't seem much to brag about. I mean, look at the state they left us in, with the wars and the broken planet. Clearly, they didn't care about what would happen to the people who came after them.

Who knows who I would be or what I would talk about if I'd been raised in the Capitol? Maybe my biggest regret would be having feathered costumes at my birthday party, too.

in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore their power.

The truth is, it benefits no one to live in a world where these things happen.

Frankly, our ancestors don't seem much to brag about. I mean, look at the state they left us in, with the wars and the broken planet. Clearly, they didn't care about what would happen to the people who came after them. But

Panem et Circenses

ze was zijn meisje." Het lijkt een kort zinnetje maar deze heeft wel betekenis, doorheen het verhaal wordt Snow verliefd op Lucy. Dit is eigenlijk niet toegelaten omdat Lucy behoort tot de arme districten en Snow behoort tot de rijkere klasse, ondanks de vele meningen van anderen toont Snow wel aan dat hij van Lucy houdt door haar zijn meisje te noemen.

But this republic idea sounds like an improvement over our current government.

One of the few freedoms we have in District 12 is the right to marry who we want or not marry at all. And now even that has been taken away from me. I

Maybe they were onto something in Six. Drug yourself out and paint flowers on your body. Not such a bad life. Seemed happier than the rest of us, anyway.

Un par de agentes de la paz arrastran al anciano que silbó hasta la parte superior de los escalones, lo obligan a ponerse de rodillas delante de la multitud y le meten un balazo en la cabeza.

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.

One of my few pleasures in 13 is watching the handful of pampered Capitol "rebels" squirming as they try to fit in. I

but I don't run Panem.

That explains it, then. Finnick's parade of lovers in the Capitol.