Suzanne Collins Quotes

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

Sharpen my bones into swords and make my flesh into Molotov cocktails

Tomorrow the revolution will already 'raise itself with a rattle' and announce with fanfare, to your terror: I was, I am, I will be!

It is right to rebel against reactionaries.

Don't want that, do they?” She throws back her head and shouts, “Whole country in rebellion? Wouldn't want anything like that!

With rebellion, awareness is born

I'm going to be the Mockingjay.

To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: “We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken.”

I think that rebellions arise out of anger, and they're very short-lived.

This wasn't any mere song and dance; here was a bold, blaring declaration howling itself into the empty face of death.

The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds.

I had many dolls. And you know how I played with them? By performing insurrections, assemblies, scenes of arrest. My dolls were almost never babies to be nursed but men and women who attacked barracks and ended up in prison.

Every revolution has its counter-revolution.

We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.

Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.

Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.

Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!

Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.

Rebellion is not going to go away...What has been unleashed, I think, can't be stopped...The importance of continuing acts of resistance is that it keeps this narrative alive...We speak a fundamental truth about this system that terrifies them.

O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms, wherewith you could defend yourselves, are gone.

Why are the people rebellious? Because the rulers interfere too much. Therefore they are rebellious.

The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.

In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a substitute universe.

God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.

While you live, the revolution lives