Suzanne Collins Quotes

Yes, everyone in the districts will be watching me to see how I handle this death sentence, this final act of President Snow’s dominance. They will be looking for some sign that their battles have not been in vain. If I can make it clear that I’m still defying the Capitol right up to the end, the Capitol will have killed me…but not my spirit. What better way to give hope to the rebels?

There are men put on this earth to make laws designed to break the spirits of men. There are those put here to have their spirits broken by those put here to break them. Then there are those who are here to break the laws that break the men who break the spirits of other men. I am one of those men. - Harry West

If you have security, you can rebel; if you don't, you hold on to any scraps of it that you have.

Power is never so overwhelming that there's no room for resistance.

Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation.

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

We have not forgotten the occupier. We remain a resistance.

They have learned that resistance is actually possible. The holds are beginning to slip away.

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.

Neither God, nor angels, or just men, command you to suffer for a single moment. Therefore it is your solemn and imperative duty to use every means, both moral, intellectual, and physical, that promise success .... Brethren, arise, arise! Strike for your lives and liberties.... Let your motto be resistance, resistance, resistance!

There is no point in resistance until the Americans arrive.

I want no one to plead my cause, because I do not wish to defend myself. All that I have done I did with an unflinching will to help destroy the autocratic regime.

Men rattle their chains--to manifest their freedom.

There is no way a spirit of resistance that has sunk so deep in the population can be repressed.

I went to Boston fully expecting to be arrested - arrested by a polizia created by a government that my ancestors rebelled to establish.

Ofglen is a little different than the other Handmaids because she has a really rebellious spirit and she has the hope that she could escape.

Only I keep wishing I could think of a way...to show the Capitol they don't own me. That I'm more than just a piece in their Games.

I would rather be a rebel than a slave.

Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

We have not forgotten the occupier. We remain a resistance.

The original American patriots were those individuals brave enough to resist with force the oppressive power of King George... Patriotism is more closely linked to dissent than it is to conformity and a blind desire for safety and security.

She wanted to tell him so mach, on the tarmac, the day he left. The world is run by brutal men and the surest proof is their armies. If they ask you to stand still, you should dance. If they ask you to burn the flag, wave it. If they ask you to murder, re-create.

If you are not their slaves, you are rebels.

You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist