Sidney Sheldon Quotes

From childhood, we're trained to be a certain way, to behave a certain way - so that the power base can control us, really. And punk and drag are completely outside of that.

I don't need a certificate of my patriotism from those in the establishment.

I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.

Don't you get the idea I'm one of those goddam radicals. Don't get the idea I'm knocking the American system.

Men live in glad obedience to the masters they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they wish to undermine.

Obedience is the psychological mechanism that links individual action to political purpose. It is the dispositional cement that binds men to systems of authority.

It is evident that not all people that have the confidence of the prime minister are the same ones that have the confidence of the head of state.

Power is never so overwhelming that there's no room for resistance.

In a confrontation with the politics of power, the soft center has always melted away.

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.

The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!

Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.

Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.

We kind of agree with Mao that political power comes largely from the barrel of a gun. And we get it that if you want a friend you should get a dog.

I spend all day figuring out how to beat the machine and knock the crap out of the political power structure.

Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.

Every class struggle is a political struggle

The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence.

We must never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.