Co Opting Quotes

“Co-opted convictions will always betray you.”
― Charles M. Blow

“But if there's one thing to learn from corporate execs, it's this: even if they aren't about to claim Anonymous's imagery for their next advertising campaign, it doesn't mean they can't, or won't, find some way of appropriating *something* about Anonymous. If someone can find an uncapitalized, exploitable, futurescanned, innovative, disruptive idea that can flourish in corporate boardrooms, they will.”
― Gabriella Coleman, Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous

“Today's 'religious freedom' policies should not be seen as a problem limited to LGBT people but as a co-optation of religion that affects us all.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“The co-opting begins at birth, the potential for co-optation is built into the system. It is part of what we have been taught is good. We have been taught to feel that the couple of thousand dollars a year more is what is desirable.”
― SWEEZY Paul M. BARAN Paul A., Study Guide to Accompany American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials, 3rd