💬 Quotes

"Preparedness is a system, hatched by military experts and armament kings, to crush the labor movement and to rivet the chains of economic slavery upon the workers."

"The state is the ultimate arbiter of all conflicts; the decisive authority in all matters of property, of life, and of death."

"Of bodies changed to various forms I sing: ye Gods, from whom these miracles did spring, inspire my enterprise, and lead along my continuous song, from nature's origin down to my very times."

"The golden age was first, which uncompelled, without a guard, their own true faith and virtue held. Punishment and fear were not; nor were severe words read on threatening brass."

"My mind is led to speak of forms changed into new bodies. O ye Gods, inspire the undertaking—since ye changed them too—and spin an uninterrupted thread from the world's very origin down to my own times."

"Time, the devourer of all things, and thou, envious age, together destroy all things that exist, and little by little consume them with a lingering death."

"Nothing perishes in this world, believe me, but things vary and change their form. To be born is to begin to be something else than what one was before; and to die is to cease to be the same."

"Now have I done a work, which neither wrath of Jove, nor fire, nor sword, nor consuming age shall be able to destroy."

"Katniss, the sun forgets to rise, it's all about you. The entire nation is turning its eyes toward you."

"Remember who the real enemy is. To get it right, the other side. Not the people you're forced to fight, but the ones running the show."

"You love me. Real or not real?' I tell him, 'Real.'"

"They're trying to send a message. That even the most successful of us is just a piece in their game."

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

"It's the Capitol's way of reminding us that no matter how free they let us feel, they can always yank the leash."

"The supposed barrier between mind and matter is merely a linguistic convenience, a division of labor between two different types of causal laws operating on the same ultimate stuff of the world."

"What we call our 'thoughts' are merely internal speech and faint images, differing from physical objects not in their intrinsic nature, but in the laws of their correlations and the fact that they are private."

"Desires are not mysterious teleological forces pulling us from the future; rather, they are organic states of restlessness that persist until a certain action removes the physical cause of the discomfort."

"Memory is not the magical recovery of a past event, but a present structural modification left behind by that event, combined with an accompanying feeling of familiarity."

"The 'I' is not a persistent substance or a transcendental ego, but a series of experiences bound together by relations of memory and habit—a bundle of perceptions in constant flux."

"If we are to find a place for mind in nature, we must abandon the traditional dualism and view both mental and physical phenomena as arrangements of neutral stuff."