Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you are free to live. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The thirteenth rule of radical tactics: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. — 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… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The ninth rule of the ethics of means and ends is that any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as… — 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
From the moment an organizer enters a community, he lives, dreams, eats, breathes, sleeps only one thing, and that is to build… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The cry of the Have-Nots has never been "give us our hearts," but always "get off our backs"; they ask not for… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
An organizer working in and for an open society is in an ideological dilemma to begin with, he does not have a… — 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… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be. That… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The fourth rule is: "Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules." You can kill them with this, for… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Spouting quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara, which are as germane to our highly technological, computerized, cybernetic, nuclearpowered, mass media society… — 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
In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The seventh rule of the ethics of means and ends is that generally success or failure is a mighty determinant of ethics.… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Organization for action will now and in the decade ahead center upon America's white middle class. That is where the power is.… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
A Marxist begins with his prime truth that all evils are caused by the exploitation of the proletariat by the capitalists. From… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The organizers first job is to create the issues or problems, and organizations must be based on many issues. The organizer must… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The democratic ideal springs from the ideas of liberty, equality, majority rule through free elections, protection of the rights of minorities, and… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
From the moment the organizer enters a community he lives, dreams... only one thing and that is to build the mass power… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
One’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s personal interest in the issue. — 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
Change comes from power, and power comes from organization. In order to act, people must get together. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The preferred world can be seen any evening on television in the succession of programs where the good always wins — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength. — 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
It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith. — 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 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
