“It's pure instinct that makes me rebel every time someone tries to control my life and hand out more rules.”

“If life hands you lemons... make lemonade. Then... try to find someone to whom life has handed vodka...”

“Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”

“For rebelling against every form of authority fate has punished me by making me an authority.”

“He took her chin in his hand and turned her to face him. "I'm a Dom, Savannah. I try to be in control of myself at all times, sometimes to the extreme. That control allows me to be in a place where I am responsible enough to accept the submission of someone who wants me to control her. The only control I will ever have over you is what you grant me.”

“The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas.”