Joe Rodeck

“In the end they had lost everything, their freedom as men, their rights as men, their dignity as men, and had become nothing else but slaves of an omnipotent State, working endlessly, half-starved, half-clothed, half-sheltered in ruined buildings, endlessly spied upon, supervised, commanded by the Military and treated like dogs.”
― Taylor Caldwell, The Devil's Advocate: The Epic Novel of One Man's Fight to Save America from Tyranny