Union pre-xists me, but its raisons d'etre are not to foment revolution. First, it attracts social malcontents like Xi-Li and keeps them where Unanimity can watch them; second, it provides Nea So Copros with the enemy required by an hierarchical state for social cohesion.
—Sonmi-451, Cloud Atlas
I work for Alfred Gerin, right hand of the president. My role is to manipulate activists and protestors into doing irrelevant shit that seems like revolution, but really doesn't amount to anything.
—Frankie, Vindictive Drive
