The final hour of colonialism has struck, and millions of inhabitants of Africa, Asia and Latin America rise to meet a new life and demand their unrestricted right to self-determination.

Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats.

The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.

It's a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies.

Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.

Be realistic, demand the impossible!

Above all, try always to be able to feel deeply any injustice committed against any person in any part of the world. It is the most beautiful quality of a revolutionary.

Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?

Let the world change you and you can change the world

If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades.

Youth should learn to think and act as a mass. It is criminal to think as individuals!

I will drive the world crazywith love poems for you.So they can know how magnificent you areand how crazy I am.

The circumstances of our lives are pieces of a larger scheme in the puzzle of life, and in His Perfect Wisdom, the pieces fit.

You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her that I was going to write a book, she would never have believed that. So you can never say never.

For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to?

I have my head screwed on right. I haven't been this way in a long time.

There should be a law to the People besides its own will.

Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me.

When exactly were we brainwashed into believing that the best way to earn a living is to have a job?

For all aspects of memory, keep yourself physically fit. My catchphrase is, Healthy mind, healthy body, healthy body, healthy mind. Your memory needs oxygen as fuel, so why not feed it often?

I frown at him. How does he know all this information? And why, after two years of avoiding becoming a Dauntless leader at all costs, is he suddenly acting like one?