The organizer dedicated to changing the life of a particular community must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Democracy is alive, and like any other living thing it either flourishes and grows or withers and dies. There is no in-between.… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Curiosity and irreverence go together. Curiosity cannot exist without the other. Curiosity asks, "Is this true?" "Just because this has always been… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Life is there ahead of you and either one tests oneself in its challenges or huddles in the valleys of a dreamless… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
“To say that corrupt means corrupt the ends is to believe in the immaculate conception of ends and principles. The real arena… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The very first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
I've never joined any organization - not even the ones I've organized myself. I prize my own independence too much. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Everybody owned stock in the Capone mob; in a way, he was a public benefactor. I remember one time when he arrived at his… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
First rule of change is controversy. You can't get away from it for the simple reason all issues are controversial. Change means movement, and… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Radicals, on the other hand, want to advance from the jungle of laissez-faire capitalism to a world worthy of the name of human civilization.… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The first step in community organization is community disorganization. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Power just goes to two poles — to those who've got money, and those who've got people. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
To the organizer, compromise is a key and beautiful word. It is always present in the pragmatics of operation... If you start with nothing,… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Organized business has assumed that greater profits would be pretty much of a cure-all, and it has to a major extent ignored the fact… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
