Belly Quote by Suzanne Collins

“It’s a saying from thousands of years ago, written in a language called Latin about a place called Rome,” he explains. “Panem et Circenses…

— Suzanne Collins

“Panem et circenses.”

— Juvenal

“Anyone who speaks Latin (gets egged by the populace for being a nerd) must have wondered from the start if Panem was a reference…

— Leah Wilson

“But the significant difference between Thirteen and the Capitol are the expectations of the populace. Thirteen was used to hardship, wheras in the Capitol,…

— Suzanne Collins

“The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and allelse, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things: bread and…

— herbert marcuse

“People of Panem, we fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice!”

— Suzanne Collins

The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things: bread…

— Juvenal

“He tells of the history of Panem, the country that rose up out of the ashes of a place that was once called North…

— Suzanne Collins

I read the Romans had bread and circuses. We had home relief and boxing.

— Jake LaMotta

“I have spent these several days past, in reading and writing, with the most pleasing tranquility imaginable. You will ask, "How that can possibly…

— Pliny the Younger

“And soon, as Tacitus put it, the Britons were dressing up in togas and taking their first steps on the path to vice, thanks…

— Mary Beard

“All of this self-centered preoccupation with their bodies actually reinforces the power of the Capitol over its citizens - and the rest of Panem.”

— Christina Van Dyke