Quotes About Autonomy

Look, if you wanted to be babied you should have asked Peeta.

At the moment, the choice would be simple. I can survive just fine without either of them.

Only.. I want to do die as myself

I've asked you fifty questions and still have no sense of your life, your family, what you care about. They want to know about you, Katniss." "But I don't want them to! They're already taking my future! They can't have the things that mattered to time in the past!" I say.

Certos passos você tem de dar sozinho.

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

But, even if there aren't, there's no Capital. And that's the main thing for me, isn't it? Not this district or that. Not student or Peacekeeper. It's living in a place where they can't control my life.

the moment, the choice would be simple. I can survive just fine without either of them.

Don't be a fool, Katniss. Think for yourself.

Vull morir essent jo mateix. […] No vull que em canviïn.

I do not take orders from you, Overlander. Let us be clear on this from the start.

Remember, we specifically asked you to leave your hair alone.

We know how to be hungry, but not how to be told how to handle what provisions we have. In some ways, District 13 is even more controlling than the Capitol.

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.

I think especially in a world where you have so little say about what goes on in your life, or in the politics of the world around you, it is wonderful to go into that studio, and tell yourself what to do.

Gains There is no man in the house that I have to try to make happy. There are no more arguments, or nights when I turn away from N in quiet dispair as he snores with an entitled regularity. Everything also stays cleaner; the toilet seat is perpetually down. I have the remote control to the television; no one can take that away. I can watch the Lifetime channel without derision.

You must take control of events before they take control of you...If you don't do what you can for yourself, no one else will.

For a moment we knew what it felt like to be free.

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.

It's The Program or me. And I decide it's going to be me.

How often does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them! When men are once trained, it is essential that their leader leave them, for without his absence they cannot develop themselves. Plants always remain small under a big tree.

Liberty is the first condition of growth. It is wrong, a thousand times wrong, if any of you dares to say, 'I will work out the salvation of this woman or child.

freedom is the first condition of growth. What you do not make free, will never grow.

I would like to have a movie under my own control sometime, and see what could be done with it. Who knows? Maybe Hollywood will make an improvisational movie someday.