Quotes About Society

way the Capitol shows it on television, but there's next to no life aboveground. In the seventy-five

Do what? Blow my lips up like President Snow's? Tattoo my breasts? Dye my skin magenta and implant gems in it? Cut decorative patterns in my face? Give me curved talons? Or cat's whiskers?

it's high-tech medicine brewed up in the Capitol's labs.

believe me when I say that if it released its grip on the districts for even a short time, the entire system would collapse.

it's hard not to resent those who don't have to sign up for tesserae.

Clearly, they didn't care about what would happen to the people who came after them. But this republic idea sounds like an improvement over our current government.

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.

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." I

Over the past seventy-five years, they've learned to be self-sufficient, turned their citizens into an army, and built a new society with no help from anyone.

Does anyone have any other comments?" "Wash her face," says Dalton. Everyone turns to him. "She's still a girl and you made her look thirty-five. Feels wrong. Like something the Capitol would do.

What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button? How would I spend the hours I now commit to combing the woods for sustenance if it were so easy to come by? What do they do all day, these people in the Capitol, besides decorating their bodies and waiting around for a new shipment of tributes to roll in and die for their entertainment?

our society should do whatever is necessary to make sure that everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed."74 Education generally is viewed as a "key ingredient in equality of opportunity

a social deformity perhaps more hideous than the evil rich man: the evil poor.

Anyone can be bored or unfulfilled at virtually any job. How one chooses to respond to boredom is key. Most women are resourceful: when faced with boredom, they find a way out. That's an essential skill. Those who don't have it will suffer, to be sure, but that is not society's problem.

Gender relations are dependent on men being men and women being women.

It is our sincere hope that this book helps support Americans who don't believe women in this country are oppressed, who know government is not the solution to women's problems, who don't believe marriage and motherhood are outdated institutions, who think men are as important as women, who think gender roles are good and exist for a reason, and who see the mainstream media for who they are.

We're all guilty of hiding things—it's the nature of the world today. We hide our feelings, we hide our pasts, we hide our true intentions. There's no way to know what's real anymore.

What we need is for good people to stand up against bad people—simple really. But in this society, they never put the burden on men to be the good people in this scenario.

Partly," he admits. "We needed help. Instead we got The Program.

Women fake orgasms and men fake finances.

Women are valued to the degree that they serve the needs of men.

Panem today Panem tomorrow Panem FOREVER!!!

Everything in contemporary society discourages interiority. More and more of our exchanges take place via circuits, and in their very nature those interactions are such as to keep us hovering in the virtual now, a place away from ourselves.

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