„Do not let the bastards grind you down.“

— Margaret Atwood
„The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them down between the millstones of taxation and inflation.“
— Vladimir Lenin
„All right you bloody Scottish bastard, lets see how stubborn you really are.“
— Diana Gabaldon
„It is trifling to believe in what you do or in what others do. You should avoid simulacra and even "realities"; you should take up a position external to everything and everyone, drive off or grind down your appetites, live, according to a Hindu adage, with as few desires as a "solitary elephant.“
— Emil M. Cioran
„You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.“
— John Lennon
„The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.“
— Emily Brontë
„Don't let the man bring you down.“
— Maya Angelou