Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you are free to live. — 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
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
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 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
If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive. — 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
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
It is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going to change it to what we think it should… — Saul 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
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
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
“Practicing deception to conceal one’s true goals and regarding moral principles and laws as applicable to others but not to oneself are… — David Horowitz 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
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 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
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
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
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
“Obama’s formative background is the left-wing fever swamp of Chicago “community organizing,” a gussied-up term for systematic rabble-rousing that has now become… — Andrew McCarthy 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
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
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
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
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
“10. What books would you recommend to an aspiring entrepreneur? Some quick favorites: The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
Okay, you've convinced me. Now go out there and bring pressure on me. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image