I want everyone watching—whether you’re on the Capitol or the rebel side—to stop for just a moment and think about what this war could mean. For human beings. We almost went extinct fighting one another before. Now our numbers are even fewer. Our conditions more tenuous. Is this really what we want to do? Kill ourselves off completely? In the hopes that—what? Some decent species will inherit the smoking remains of the earth?

Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library]

Hermetic quote Collins Mockingjay everyone watching capitol or rebel side stop just a moment and think war could mean

Consider also:

  1. “The stains of human misery that must have been hosed off these white tiles…”
  2. “For, sometimes, your heart seems as pure as the snow, While, at other times, dear, you’re one big Ho Ho Ho!”
  3. “To live in the sense of these great cosmogonies means to work for the attainment of personal spiritual perfection. Only by so doing can man become a servant of the world and of humanity. Self-perfection is by no means self-seeking, for the imperfect man is an imperfect servant of the world and of humanity. The more perfect a man is, the better does he serve the world. ‘If the rose adorns itself, it adorns the garden.'”
  4. “Then how do they pay you for the pleasure of your company?” I ask. “With secrets”
  5. “I crave the small, tactile simplicity of my new Kindle Paperwhite in its purple leather cover, which is currently home to what would make up around three boxes of physical books, but whose screen’s digital imprint is flattened of all memory and association. It’s soulless and almost weightless. On the other hand, the smug little ereader has not broken my spirit and my knees in the way that disposing of half my library has done, driving me to tears, rage and paracetamol.”