quotes about Mockingjay

“Falling in love for the first time, and then the heartbreak of having it end, is difficult, but I don't think it would ever hurt as much as when my mother was killed in the boating accident. I feel a part of my heart has already been broken, and that place is reserved for mother.”

“A colorful Chanel bag is a way to mix up anything.”

“The social and economic impact of innovative American researchers, companies, and workers over the course of U.S. history have been enormous.”

Source : "The Road to an Effective Innovation Diplomacy" by Robert Hormats, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2013.

“People who thought that she was busy going around trying to stir up difficulty where there was none or less than she imagined, were quite critical of her. She was, we must never forget, a public figure. And in democracies, public figures tend to attract criticism as well as praise. The most dangerous thing would be if anybody were regarded as above criticism. And Eleanor Roosevelt is, in recent years, getting there.”

“All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.”

Source : Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

“I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the idea of retribution, thus maintaining the endless cycle of violence in our culture. It is a cruel and useless substitute for the elimination of those conditions--poverty, unemployment, homelessness, desperation, racism, greed--which are at the root of most punished crime. The crimes of the rich and powerful go mostly unpunished.”

“Peace without energy may be only stagnation; and energy without peace may be but a form of panic.”

“I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.”

“When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic indicates that disarmament would not affect military security at all.”

“We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom.”