Suzanne Collins Quotes

Beware the People weeping When they bare the iron hand.

Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress?

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

Fear is the passion of slaves.

Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance.

Fear must rule in a despotism.

The establishment, whatever rewards it gives us, will also, if necessary to maintain it's control, kill us

The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason is terror and force.

Tremble, all ye oppressors of the world!

Violence can always destroy power; out of the barrel of a gun grows the most effective command, resulting in the most instant and perfect obedience. What never can grow out of it is power.

Authority is never without hate.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

Let tyrants shake their iron rod.

The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.

We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

A people that patiently lets itself be trampled, deserves to be trampled and crushed.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

Powerlessness also corrupts.