Quotes About Authority

In my mind, President Snow should be viewed in front of marble pillars hung with oversized flags.

Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch — this is the Capitol's way of reminding us how totally we are at their mercy. How little chance we would stand of surviving another rebellion. Whatever words they use, the real message is clear. "Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there's nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did in District Thirteen.

Is that the standard protocol here?" asks the Head Peacekeeper. "Yes, sir," Purnia says, and several others nod in agreement. I'm sure none of them actually know because, in the Hob, the standard protocol for someone showing up with a wild turkey is for everybody to bid on the drumsticks.

No. Shut up and eat your pears,

You mean . . . I could demand that they give Peeta immunity? And they'd have to agree to it?" "I think you could demand almost anything and they'd have to agree to it.

In some ways, District 13 is even more controlling than the Capitol.

Just give him the medicine!" I scream at her. "Give it to him! Who are you, anyway, to decide how much pain he can stand!

There's quite a difference between skirting the rules and putting musket balls through them.

She could have afforded something bigger and more modern, had she been willing to compromise on location, but she'd hated the thought of not being able to wake up to the sound of the sea crashing on the shoreline and the seagulls squawking overhead. It gave her a sense of freedom, something which had been lacking during the years she'd spent growing up in the care of the local authority

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. —C. S. Lewis

I realize that's the way, the way of selfish people. They want to control everyone else, but when it's them, they want their own rules.

he lets me take the orders, standing at my side like my own personal Mexican food encyclopedia

No longer were there "doctors" of anthropology and physics and literature to offend the real doctors and confuse the public; they had put a stop to that, as they had put a stop to so many things that were unseemly and inappropriate.

There's got to be something you can do with them, or they will literally drive you crazy. Women out of control are a curse—and if you don't put a stop to it, you'll regret it bitterly later on.

Panem today Panem tomorrow Panem FOREVER!!!

True. The school admin decided that a girls clothes were more important than her education.

In modern times, if a man quotes a Moses or a Buddha or a Christ, he is laughed at; but let him give the name of a Huxley, a Tyndall, or a Darwin, and it is swallowed without salt.

A child knows when they are on the receiving end of a didactic exercise, or when they are sitting in the shadow of something else.

The biggest challenge is always the governments - they try to stop all good things. I try to stay away from them as much as I can, as I know if someone can destroy something good, it's the government.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

The law sometimes sleeps; it never dies.