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"Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny."
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"People of Panem, we fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice! There's dead silence on the set. It goes on. And on. Finally, the intercom crackles and Haymitch's acerbic laugh fills the studio. He contains himself just long enough to say, "And that, my friends, is how a revolution dies."
"A good religious is the one who fights against the religion for the sake of religion."
"Revolution is the accession of the peoples, and, at the bottom, the People is Man."
"Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era."
"The only way to support a revolution is to make your own."
"I have always thought that in revolutions, especially democratic revolutions, madmen, not those so called by courtesy, but genuine madmen, have played a very considerable political part. One thing is certain, and that is that a condition of semi-madness is not unbecoming at such times, and often even leads to success."
"This is a revolution, damnit! We're going to have to offend somebody!"
"It is amazing how desperately the self-proclaimed revolutionaries grope for their own orthodoxy."
"The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect."
"The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology."
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"He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil."
"The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself."
"Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity."
"My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image."
"As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking."
"Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him."
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