“Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult.”

Homecoming saga, The Ships Of Earth (1994)

Source: "The Failure of Nonviolence" (2013) https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-the-failure-of-nonviolence, Chapter 4. The Color Revolutions

1930s, Speech to the Democratic National Convention (1936)
Context: For too many of us the political equality we once had won was meaningless in the face of economic inequality. A small group had concentrated into their own hands an almost complete control over other people's property, other people's money, other people's labor — other people's lives. For too many of us life was no longer free; liberty no longer real; men could no longer follow the pursuit of happiness.
Against economic tyranny such as this, the American citizen could appeal only to the organized power of government. The collapse of 1929 showed up the despotism for what it was. The election of 1932 was the people's mandate to end it. Under that mandate it is being ended.

Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 18.

As quoted in “For Utopia, Curb State Controls”, Peggy Baker, Ames Daily Tribune (Ames, Iowa), January 23, 1970

Three Roads to Quantum Gravity (2000)

Popular Quotes, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part 1: The Myth of Male Power, p. 30.