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
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
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
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
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
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
Theres another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The first step in community organization is community disorganization. The disruption of the present organization is the first step toward community organization.… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Radicals must be resilient, adaptable to shifting political circumstances, and sensitive enough to the process of action and reaction to avoid being… — Saul Alinsky 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
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
