Suzanne Collins Quotes

But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation.

The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

I will collect my people and we will fight in the open, and if we cannot win there, we will go underground.

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

Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.

Odd how often blood is shed to obtain freedom from those in power. Oppressors must be the most insecure people in the world.

If you are not their slaves, you are rebels.

When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots. They can't get away with their abuse. They can't get away with subjection. They can't get away with subjugation. They can't get away with exploitation. They can't get away with domination. It takes courage for folk to stand up.

If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.

Tremble, all ye oppressors of the world!

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

We continue to resist the occupier militarily, culturally and by all means of the resistance.

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

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.

Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE.

What was taken by force, can only be restored by force.

Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.

Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.

Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.

When I don't feel free and can't do what I want I just react. I go against it.

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

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

One of the greatest rebels, who I really admire: Christ. He was a rebel. He ended up being crucified. He was a great rebel. He rebelled against the established power that subjugated.