You could tell ‚The Handmaid’s Tale‘ from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesting.

I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.

What I’d really like to control is not machines, but people.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.

There is no inherent power in the office of the vice presidency. Zero. None. It’s all a reflection of your relationship with the president. I mean, Kennedy never let Johnson in the office.

The society in ‚The Handmaid’s Tale‘ is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the book is dedicated.

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

‚1984‘ is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.

Living in a state of terror was new to many white people in America, but black people have been living in a state of terror in this country for more than 400 years.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

In any court-like environment of power, you will inevitably find people who are drawn to those who are successful or powerful, not out of admiration, but out of secret envy.

If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That’s not going to happen if you care only about yourself.

When a father puts in long hours at work, he’s praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she’s sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.

The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken. More: You have ceded them power.

I look like a woman, but I think like a man.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

Power works best when it is indirect – never coercing people; instead, getting them to voluntarily align with your interests.

Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

I found it hard to be young. When I was married in my twenties, I hated being regarded as ‚the little wife.‘ You don’t know what it was like then! I’d never even written a cheque. I had to ask my husband for money for groceries.

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It’s like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I’d like to play strong women who are also very feminine.

Woman’s at best a contradiction still.

If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.

If we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up ‚humble,‘ 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It’s a controlling word. It’s a way to control the masses and to control the sheep.

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money. You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

People that’s in power – the central banks, these fiat currencies that are traded globally – they got influence over the messaging and the narrative in the media.

Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.

It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‚least advanced‘ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

I always thought that there was nothing an antifeminist would want more than to have women only in women’s organizations, in their own little corner empathizing with each other and not touching a man’s world.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

Mubarak was oppressing and pillaging his own people. He was an enemy to the Palestinians and an accomplice of Israel, the sixth nuclear power on the planet, associated with the war-mongering NATO group.

‚Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

Housework never really bothered me… what bothered me about it later was that it was expected to be your life… when you’re a housewife, you are constantly interrupted. You have no space in your life. It isn’t the fact that you do the laundry.

I’m not denyin‘ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ‚em to match the men.

Part of the core information that I’ve been purveying is that identity politics is a sick game. You don’t play racial, ethnic, and gender identity games. The Left plays them on behalf of the oppressed, let’s say, and the Right tends to play them on behalf of nationalism and ethnic pride. I think they’re equally dangerous.

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the ’40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.

My mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that’s an important lesson, especially for the Latino culture, because the women are expected to be the ones that serve and cook and whatever. Not in our family. Everybody was equal.

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.