Panem et Circenses" translates into 'Bread and Circuses.' The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore their power.

We had to save you because you're the mockingjay, Katniss," says Plutarch. "While you live, the revolution lives.

Mostly we just add to the piles of rainbow glass that's been blown off the exteriors of the cany-colored buildings.

You know what I miss? More than anything? Coffee. -- Plutarch Heavensbee

Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?" says Peeta. "It costs everything you are.

And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day," she said. "Do you see?

They more than do their work, they take pride in it. Like Cinna.