"I don't want to be just one thing. I can't be. I want to be brave, and selfless, honest, intelligent, and kind. Well...I'm still working on kind."
This quote is spoken when Four shows Tris a series of tattoos on his back, the symbols of all of the factions. He is saying that he doesn't want to be categorized into just one personality trait, or just one faction. He wants traits from all of these factions, something shown by Divergent.
"The system removes the threat of anyone practicing their independent will. Divergence threatens that system. It won't be safe until they're removed."
This quote shows how Matthews wants all of the Divergents eradicated. Because they show more traits than one, they are a threat to the system of the factions. In the film, Matthews is the main advocate for the removal of Divergent people and will do anything to achieve her goal.
"I think of the motto I read in my Faction History textbook: Faction before blood. More than family, our factions are where we belong. Can that possibly be right?"
Tris has this thought in the beginning while paying attention to Marcus' initial discourse at the Choosing Ceremony. He has recently made sense of that the groups were made to dispense with specific character qualities that every group accepts are the reason for evil on the planet. Amity blames aggression; Candor blames dishonesty; Dauntless, cowardice; Erudite, ignorance; and Abnegation, selfishness. He proceeds to say that the faction qualifications permit everybody to satisfy significant social jobs, opening them into occupations that line up with their group characters. At long last, he states that the groups provide everybody's lives with significance and motivation. "Faction before blood," the saying from Tris' course reading, repeats the way of thinking that individuals ought to be faithful to the people who share their convictions and values, not really to the individuals who raised them. At this early point in the movie, Tris' scrutinizing thought shows that she is battling with abandoning her family to join Valiant. As of recently, she's inclined in the direction of remaining in refusal simply because she's given to her loved ones. Yet, group lessons edge her somewhat closer to picking courageous, the gathering she's forever been attracted to on a stomach level. When she finds out if she can trust the adage "Faction before blood," she doesn't yet realize that she'll before long be questioning the logic behind the whole faction system.
