Suzanne Collins Quotes

Cruelty might be very human and very cultural, but it is not acceptable and it is not an option.

The killing of innocent people is always wrong.

There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.

Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner.

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

No conditions justify torture.

Enormous slaughter may have been acceptable in previous centuries. It simply isn't acceptable anymore.

Eating people is wrong

This could never be a crime in any society which deems itself enlightened.

Cruelty is not a literary value.

A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But how can you say a person is illegal? You just can't. That's all there is to it.

Still, it doesn't do to murder people, no matter how offensive they may be.

Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.

I condemn, for all climes and for all times, secret murders and unfair methods even for a fair cause.

It might or might not be right to kill, but sometimes it is necessary.

I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever.

What goes on in the world and who's defining what is right or wrong in anything? Is there a place in any of our existence where we need judgment any longer? But we should have empathy towards each other and break away from those categories that politics and religion keep throwing back at us.

Legality alone is no guide for a moral people. There are many things in this world that have been, or are, legal but clearly immoral. Slavery was legal. Did that make it moral? South Africa’s apartheid, Nazi persecution of Jews, and Stalinist and Maoist purges were all legal, but did that make them moral?

Ethical inquiry has always been motivated by the aim of improving human conduct. It doesn't follow from that that the goal is to produce a complete rule book that would be applicable to all cases.

If you ask anyone, what is morality based on? These are the two factors that always come out: One is reciprocity, … a sense of fairness, and the other one is empathy and compassion.

Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.

I groaned. Man and his codes! Even in a lawless inferno, man has to give himself some honor, he's so desperate to separate himself from the beasts.

Te Occidere Possunt Sed Te Edere Non Possunt Nefas Est" ("They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier").

Morals - all correct moral laws - derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.

No, not me.I'm not a good person or a bad person.I'm just here to kill things.