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“People aren’t so bad, really,” she said. “It’s what the world does to them.”
― The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
― The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
“You can blame it on the circumstances, the environment, but you made the choices you made, no one else. It's a lot to take in all at once, but it's essential that you make an effort to answer that question. Who are human beings? Because who we are determines the type of governing we need. Later on, I hope you can reflect and be honest with yourself about that you learned tonight.”
― The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
― The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
“And if even the most innocent among us turn to killers in the Hunger Games, what does that say? That our essential nature is violent,” Snow explained. “Self-destructive,” Dean Highbottom murmured”
― The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
― The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
“I think there’s a natural goodness built into human beings. You know when you’ve stepped across the line into evil, and it’s your life’s challenge to try and stay on the right side of that line.”
― The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
― The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
“Without the threat of death, it wouldn’t have been much of a lesson,” said Dr. Gaul. “What happened in the arena? That’s humanity undressed. The tributes. And you, too. How quickly civilization disappears. All your fine manners, education, family background, everything you pride yourself on, stripped away in the blink of an eye, revealing everything you actually are. A boy with a club who beats another boy to death. That’s mankind in its natural state.”
― The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
― The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
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