Suzanne Collins Quotes

Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.

Sic temper tyranis! The South is avenged!

Street art, of course, is political, because it's illegal, so the very act of doing it is an act of defiance.

My work isn't overtly political, although it is sometimes painted in places where I don't have permission to paint, so that could be construed as a political statement.

Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.

I will never stand for a national anthem again. I will turn my back and I will raise a fist.

Silence is the tortured man's revenge.

I'll go for things that I know are going to be wrong, with a vengeance

I want to do something, right here, right now, to shame them, to make them accountable, to show the Capitol that whatever they do or force us to do there is a part of every tribute they can't own. That Rue was more than a piece in their Games. And so am I.

Her name badge read: Hello! My name is DIE, DEMIGOD SCUM!

The resistance is not something to be avoided, it's something to seek out.

You've got to shake your fists at lightning now, you've got to roar like forest fire You've got to spread your light like blazes all across the sky They're going to aim the hoses on you, show 'em you won't expire Not till you burn up every passion, not even when you die Come on now, you've got to try, if you're feeling contempt, well then you tell it If you're tired of the silent night, Jesus, well then you yell it Condemned to wires and hammers, strike every chord that you feel That broken trees and elephant ivories conceal

The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order .

Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn't make me nervous. Standing up to the government - that made me nervous.

DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.

Are you okay?" she whispers, giggling. Me? Oh sure. You might have to carry me out of here, though." What happened?" I created a distraction." I gathered that." Step stool, encyclopedias, floor." I see. Well, I can't thank you enough." Sure you can. Help me flunk enough tests, so I drop out of the 'torian range." Can't you just tell Abernethy that you have a reputation as a dumbshit to keep up, and you don't want the attention?" Flunking is more fun.

Fine. I'll train. But I'm going to the stinking capitol if I have to kill a crew and fly there myself." Says Johanna. "Probably best not to bring that up in training," I say. "But it's nice to know I'll have a ride.

Nobody steals from Creed Bratton and gets away with it. The last person to do this disappeared. His name? Creed Bratton.

Call me sick. Call me deranged. I'm gonna be your worst nightmare. I'm gonna be your hero whether you like it or not!

If his Majesty is resolved to have my head, he may make a whistle of my arse if he pleases.

I'm Sirantha Jax, and I have had enough.