The large organization is lord and manor, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were medieval peasants who never knew they were serfs.

Ralph Nader, "The anatomy of whistleblowing" (1972), in Nader, Petkas, and Blackwell (eds.), WhistleBlowing: The Report of the Conference on Professional Responsibility, New York: Grossman Publishers, as quoted in Erik Mygind du Plessis, Speaking Truth through Power.