5 Wilfrid Sheed Quotes on Power

Wilfrid Sheed quotes on power

10. The desire not to destroy the palace but to move into it oneself has always been the occupational curse of revolutionaries.

13. Censors will try to censor a little bit more each year (because, like editors and other officious people, censors don't feel they are getting anywhere unless they are up and doing).

37. As things now stand, the office is a slightly meaner battleground than the home. Male bosses seem to dominate their women underlings as they would never dominate their wives.

39. Not that there weren't real communists in the labor unions, and real spies in Washington, but these had nothing to do with the show that was being put on for us, which seemed entirely designed to Make Us Take This Thing Seriously. From abroad, where I was for much of the time, it looked as if the United States were trying to act like a superpower by holding its very own show trials.

47. Whether or not Big Brother is watching us, we certainly have to watch him, which may be even worse.