“Co-opted convictions will always betray you.”

“No language meant no chance of co-opting them in to what their round and flaxen invaders were calling Salvation.”

“The ego is like a clever monkey, which can co-opt anything, even the most spiritual practices, so as to expand itself. (155)”

“The significance of feminist movement (when it is not co-opted by opportunistic, reactionary forces) is that it offers a new ideological meeting ground for the sexes, a space for criticism, struggle, and transformation.”

“I believe the United States government is beingsystematically taken over by a revolutionary network. They call themselvesProgressives, but we know they are really leftist radicals,dedicated to the demise of the free-market capitalist system. They haveco-opted and bought off leaders of both the Republican and Democraticparties, established a dominant role in all three branches ofgovernment and thoroughly co-opted the mainstream media.”

“[A]ll gastronomic pleasure [is] a co-opted form of sexual desire. We interrupt the organic process of a plant or animal in order to eat it and we exhaust our own voluptuousness, our own perverted sexual desire, in the pleasure of eating.”