Rose Macaulay Quotes

The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them.

We must heed the call of action and, with courageous steps and humble hearts, work against tyranny.

The establishment, whatever rewards it gives us, will also, if necessary to maintain it's control, kill us

Listen up, Wanda. I know exactly what you don't want to be. But we're human, and we're selfish, and we don't always do the right thing. We aren't going to let you go. Deal with it.

The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others.

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.

The whole of mankind's progress has had to be achieved against the resistance and opposition of the state and its power of coercion.

What stands if freedom fall?

Free people can treat each other justly, but they can't make life fair. To get rid of the unfairness among individuals, you have to exercise power over them. The more fairness you want, the more power you need. Thus, all dreams of fairness become dreams of tyranny in the end.

It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free.

It is easy to be proud & harsh & selfish - so easy. But we have been created for better things.

There are two kinds of rebellion. The first is one in which the slave demands something that the tyrant has got. The second is one in which he demands something that the tyrant has not got.

Oppression breeds the power to oppose it.

Any act of violence creates resentment and resistance, because humans were meant to be free.

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

We must never give a free hand to those who want to subjugate us, draw this line so that New York will never become New Mecca.

Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.

You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.

Some paradox of our natures leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on to make them the objects of our pity , then of our wisdom , ultimately of our coercion.

Under dictatorship, the people in prison are always superior to the people who put them there.

Why are the people rebellious? Because the rulers interfere too much. Therefore they are rebellious.

Only oppression should fear the full exercise of freedom.

Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.