Handmaid's Tale Frequent Quotes

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underlings given sudden power frequently become the worst abusers of it.
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Margaret Atwood (The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2))
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The doctors, the dentists, the lawyers, the accountants: in the new world of Gilead, as in the old, their sins are frequently forgiven them.
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Margaret Atwood (The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2))
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I’ve had cause to notice over the course of what you might call my Gilead career that underlings given sudden power frequently become the worst abusers of it.
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Margaret Atwood (The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2))
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much latitude is given by those in power to professionals who can relieve them of pain. The doctors, the dentists, the lawyers, the accountants: in the new world of Gilead, as in the old, their sins are frequently forgiven them.
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Margaret Atwood (The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2))
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But this stage is not the same after all, because of the three wooden posts that stand on it, with the loops of rope. At the front of the stage there is a microphone; the television camera is discreetly off to the side. I’ve only been to one of these before, two years ago. Women’s Salvagings are not frequent. There is less need for them. These days we are so well behaved. I don’t want to be telling this story.
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Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale)