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“The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate. The twenty-four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland. Over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death. The last tribute standing wins.”
Source : Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.20, Scholastic Inc.
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“We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.”
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“That's one of the tragedies of this life-that the men who are most in need of a beating up are always enormous.”
Source : "Fictional character: John D. Hackensacker III". "The Palm Beach Story", www.imdb.com. August 28, 1942. 
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“To build a mass movement, nonviolence is indispensable.”
Source : "“Exiles From the Future”: An Interview with Vijay Prashad". Interview with Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. August 17, 2016.
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“We all have the dark, ignorant shadow inside us. I have worked endlessly to reveal it and heal it in me, but of course there's some primitive weird stuff in me. The Tea Party is about exhorting white supremacy, though, so I've had a tiny bit of trouble experiencing sympathy.”
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“In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.”
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“There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the provocative lie which does not seek belief but commands silence.”
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“and that, in the end, the most interesting people always leave.”
