Maggie Stiefvater Quotes

I am not free because I can be exploded anytime.

I am always loath to use the world 'evil,' but if 'evil' is the reverse of 'live,' Guy de Rothschild is thoroughly evil. He stands for the opposite of life.

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.

Although I write dystopian fiction, I don't believe in dystopian fantasies.

Give the peasants neither life nor death.

Crimes are more often committed out of fear than wickedness. People live frightened, desperate lives.

Revolutions break out when opposite parties, the rich and the poor, are equally balanced, and there is little or nothing between them.

I came to the cities in a time of disorder When hunger ruled. I came among men in a time of uprising And I revolted with them.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

The history of most countries has been that of majorities—mounted majorities, clad in iron, armed with death, treading down the tenfold more numerous minorities.

Our present joyless labour, and our lives scared and anxious as the life of a hunted beast, are forced upon us by the present system of producing for the profit of the privileged classes.

I began to feel whatever narrow space I had in Saudi Arabia was getting narrower. I thought it would be better to get out and be safe.

In a sense, fictional dystopias have been a way of distracting us from the truth of our condition by placing it 'over there.'

In India, there's so much strife, pain and trouble that song, dance and going to the movies is respite.

Terror, terror, terror. Life was a reign o terror in the shadow of the guillotine.

It is an understatement to say that in this society injustices abound: in truth, it is itself the quintessence of injustice.

We seem to be pariahs alike in the visible and the invisible world, with no foothold anywhere, though by every principle of government and religion we should have an equal place on this planet.

No people can more exactly interpret the inmost meaning of the present situation in Ireland than the American Negro. The scheme is simple. You knock a man down and then have him arrested for assault. You kill a man and then hang the corpse.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.

While it is very sturdy of comfortable men to point out that life is unfair, the people it is unfair to are not apt to be morally or philosophically elevated by the announcement. If you are going to preach that unfairness is inescapable for some, good sense suggests that you also accept the inevitability of beastly behavior by people who have to carry the burden.

What crimes, for which we condemn the Government as satanic, have not we been guilty of towards our own untouchable brethren?

The only living socities are those which are animated by inequality and injustice.

Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.