“All of this evokes the dicta of successful historic propagandists described earlier. From Alinsky's Rules for Radicals: >"Ridicule is man's most potent… — Sharyl Attkisson Copy Share Image
Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The third rule of ethics of means and ends is that in war the end justifies almost any means.... — 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
Men don't like to step abruptly out of the security of familiar experience; they need a bridge to cross from their own… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
In a fight almost anything goes. It almost reaches the point where you stop to apologize if a chance blow lands above… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The practical revolutionary will understand Goethe's 'conscience is the virtue of observers and not of agents of action'; in action, one does… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The end is what you want, the means is how you get it. Whenever we think about social change, the question of… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
To say that corrupt means corrupt the ends is to believe in the immaculate conception of ends and principles. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
