Taylor Proctor

“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.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“No it isn’t! I don’t care what you say. You’ve no right to starve people, to punish them for no reason. No right to take away their life and freedom. Those are things everyone is born with, and they’re not yours for the taking. Winning a war doesn’t give you the right. Having more weapons doesn’t give you the right. Being from the Capitol doesn't give you that right. Nothing does.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“He was glad about the erasure. It was just one more way to eliminate Lucy Gray from the world. The Capitol would forget her, the districts barely knew her, and District 12 had never accepted her as one of their own. In a few years, there would be a vague memory that a girl had once sung in the arena. And then that would be forgotten, too. Good-bye Lucy Gray, we hardly knew you.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“It certainly supports her view of humanity.’ said Snow. ‘Especially using the children.’
‘And why is that?’ asked Dean Highbottom. ‘Because we credit them with innocence. And if 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.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes