But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.

It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down.

No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the record for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self destruction.

Does history record any case in which the majority was right?

I no longer feel allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself. I think that Peeta was onto something about us destroying one another and letting some decent species take over. Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to settle its differences. You can spin it any way you like. Snow thought the Hunger Games were an efficient means of control. Coin thought the parachutes would expedite the war. But in the end, who does it benefit? No one. The truth is, it benefits no one to live in a world where these things happen.