Suzanne Collins Quotes

When a lion doesn't get its prey, it remains hungry. When the prey saves himself, he has not won, but has saved his life.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.

Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.

Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

I think that the thing that is really strong with 'The Hunger Games' is just that it comes from a very strong idea.

He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel.

People are violent by nature. That’s why we rule the earth; we beat the crap out of everyone else.

It is better to die fighting than to live begging.

I was one of those guys that really had to fight to make it in this league. Early on, I really had to do whatever it took, whether it be fight, rough people up, to make the team. I looked at it as it's either me or them - and it was going to be me.

Of course you are. The tributes were necessary to the Games, too. Until they weren't," I say. "And then we were very disposable - right, Plutarch?

Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death. The Hunger Games have begun.

He who would live must fight. He who doesn't wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.

Winning is important, but survival is even more important. If you don't survive, you don't get to fight the next battle.

When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is.

We have become too civilized to grasp the obvious. For the truth is very simple. To survive you often have to fight, and to fight you have to dirty yourself. War is evil, and it is often the lesser evil. Those who take the sword perish by the sword, and those who don't take the sword perish by smelly diseases.

A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle,and the oppressed is often left no recourse but to use methods that mirror those of the oppressor.At a point, one can only fight fire with fire

It's a god-eat-god world.

If it's true, why do they leave us to live like this? With the hunger and the killings and the Games?" And suddenly I hate this imaginary underground city of District 13 and those who sit by, watching us die. They're no better than the Capitol.

The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate. The twenty-four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland. Over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death. The last tribute standing wins.

When you play a game of thrones you win or you die.