"[T]he astonishing thing is not that some people steal or that others occasionally go out on strike, but rather that all those who are starving do not steal as a regular practice, and all those who are exploited are not continually out on strike: after centuries of exploitation why do people still tolerate being humiliated and enslaved, to such a point, indeed, that they actually want humiliation and slavery not only for other but for themselves?"
-Anti-Oedipus, Gilles Deleuze and Feliz Guattari, trans. Robert Hurley, Mark Seem, Helen R Lane, 2009, pp. 29