--- title: "14 Saul Alinsky Quotes by 13 authors" description: "Browse 14 Saul Alinsky quotes by 13 authors. Discover the best Saul Alinsky sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24a/monica-crowley-7194_barack_the-tactics-of-saul-alinsky-and-barack-o_2395426.jpg" --- > [The tactics of Saul Alinsky and Barack Obama are geared toward wealth redistribution.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/monica-crowley/the-tactics-of-saul-alinsky-and-barack-obama-are-geared-toward-wealth/) [Monica Crowley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/monica-crowley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24a/monica-crowley-7194_barack_the-tactics-of-saul-alinsky-and-barack-o_2395426.jpg) > [“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he wasn't Saul Alinsky.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chrisv82/the-greatest-trick-the-devil-ever-pulled-was-convincing-the-world-he-4/) ChrisV82 [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e9/chrisv82-228281_devil_the-greatest-trick-the-devil-ever-pulled_2932801.jpg) > [In one of his puckish moods Saul talked the president of a university into letting him anonymously take an examination being administered…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-von-hoffman/in-one-of-his-puckish-moods-saul-talked-the-president-of-a-university/) [Nicholas von Hoffman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-von-hoffman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/589/nicholas-von-hoffman-32722_community_in-one-of-his-puckish-moods-saul-talked_2487481.jpg) > [Do not let the Obama administration fool you with all their cunning Alinsky methods. And if you don't know what that method…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-voight/do-not-let-the-obama-administration-fool-you-with-all-their-cunning/) [Jon Voight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-voight/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f4/jon-voight-14088_administration_do-not-let-the-obama-administration-fool_1057031.png) > [“If most of the people in the country believe that America is generally fair and decent, it becomes more difficult for Saul…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-carson/if-most-of-the-people-in-the-country-believe-that-america-is/) [Ben Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-carson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/afd/ben-carson-3320_change_if-most-of-the-people-in-the-country-bel_864195.jpg) > [“On that basis, I recently tried to interest a troubled young woman of my acquaintance with Peale’s work, as a substitute for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-j-o-meara/on-that-basis-i-recently-tried-to-interest-a-troubled-young-woman-of/) [James J. O'Meara](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-j-o-meara/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a62/james-j-o-meara-47694_books_on-that-basis-i-recently-tried-to-intere_2717655.jpg) > [Obama wouldn't have been voted president if he weren't black. Somebody asked me over the weekend why does somebody earn a lot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rush-limbaugh/obama-wouldn-t-have-been-voted-president-if-he-weren-t-black-somebody/) [Rush Limbaugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rush-limbaugh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/959/rush-limbaugh-28_bigs_obama-wouldn-t-have-been-voted-president_72481.jpg) > [Obama's Marxist mentors - Franklin Marshall Davis, Saul Alinsky and Bill Ayers - also understood that you don't build an army of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-limbaugh/obama-s-marxist-mentors-franklin-marshall-davis-saul-alinsky-and-bill/) [David Limbaugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-limbaugh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0e/david-limbaugh-8075_army_obama-s-marxist-mentors-franklin-marshal_1737193.jpg) > [ \[Barack\] Obama isn't pointing to anyone, and certainly doesn't like it when others note (correctly) that his influences were the likes of… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-kengor/barack-obama-isn-t-pointing-to-anyone-and-certainly-doesn-t-like-it/) [Paul Kengor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-kengor/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b0a/paul-kengor-14302_acknowledge_barack-obama-isn-t-pointing-to-anyone-an_1938904.jpg) > [I kind of make my life an open book as long as the left exists to use Saul Alinsky tactics to destroy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-breitbart/i-kind-of-make-my-life-an-open-book-as-long-as-the-left-exists-to-use/) [Andrew Breitbart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-breitbart/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b7a/andrew-breitbart-2046_backgrounds_i-kind-of-make-my-life-an-open-book-as-l_2216189.jpg) > [“Saul Alinsky advised his followers to level sharp attacks against their opponents with the goal of goading them into rash counterattacks that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-carson/saul-alinsky-advised-his-followers-to-level-sharp-attacks-against/) [Ben Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-carson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d45/ben-carson-3320_goals_saul-alinsky-advised-his-followers-to-le_3010638.jpg) > [“The New Left in the 1960s was obsessed with consciousness raising. Saul Alinsky, a mentor to Obama and Hillary, devoted a large…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dinesh-d-souza/the-new-left-in-the-1960s-was-obsessed-with-consciousness-raising/) [Dinesh D'Souza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dinesh-d-souza/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e29/dinesh-d-souza-2242_black-lives-matter_the-new-left-in-the-1960s-was-obsessed-w_1901844.jpg) > [The idea of protest organizing, as summarized by community organizer Saul Alinsky, is that if we put enough pressure on the government,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grace-lee-boggs/the-idea-of-protest-organizing-as-summarized-by-community-organizer/) [Grace Lee Boggs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grace-lee-boggs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/625/grace-lee-boggs-7776_community_the-idea-of-protest-organizing-as-summar_709296.png) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-mccarthy/obama-s-formative-background-is-the-left-wing-fever-swamp-of-chicago/) [Andrew McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b4/andrew-mccarthy-4162_christianity_obama-s-formative-background-is-the-left_1387362.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/saul-alinsky/#itemlist", "name": "Saul Alinsky Quotes", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The tactics of Saul Alinsky and Barack Obama are geared toward wealth redistribution.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Monica Crowley" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/monica-crowley/the-tactics-of-saul-alinsky-and-barack-obama-are-geared-toward-wealth/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": 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And if you don't know what that method is, I implore you to get the book 'Rules for Radicals,' by Saul Alinsky. Mr. Obama is very well trained in these methods.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jon Voight" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-voight/do-not-let-the-obama-administration-fool-you-with-all-their-cunning/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f4/jon-voight-14088_administration_do-not-let-the-obama-administration-fool_1057031.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f4/jon-voight-14088_administration_do-not-let-the-obama-administration-fool_1057031.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f4/jon-voight-14088_administration_do-not-let-the-obama-administration-fool_1057031.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Do not let the Obama administration fool you with all their cunning Alinsky methods. 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She handed the book back with some disgust: “No, he was satirized by Tom Lehrer.” Those who doubt the power of cultural artifacts to control minds should reflect on the lingering power of one line in a satirical song from 50 years ago; “the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule“– Saul Alinsky.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "James J. 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Somebody asked me over the weekend why does somebody earn a lot of money have a lot of money, because she's black. It was Oprah. No, it can't be. Yes, it is. There's a lot of guilt out there, show we're not racists, we'll make this person wealthy and big and famous and so forth… If Obama weren't black he'd be a tour guide in Honolulu or he'd be teaching Saul Alinsky constitutional law or lecturing on it in Chicago.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Rush Limbaugh" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rush-limbaugh/obama-wouldn-t-have-been-voted-president-if-he-weren-t-black-somebody/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/959/rush-limbaugh-28_bigs_obama-wouldn-t-have-been-voted-president_72481.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/959/rush-limbaugh-28_bigs_obama-wouldn-t-have-been-voted-president_72481.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/959/rush-limbaugh-28_bigs_obama-wouldn-t-have-been-voted-president_72481.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Obama wouldn't have been voted president if he weren't black. 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When you 'share wealth around' you make the distributees dependent on your next handout - beholden to your largesse with other's people's money and personally worse off in every respect.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "David Limbaugh" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-limbaugh/obama-s-marxist-mentors-franklin-marshall-davis-saul-alinsky-and-bill/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0e/david-limbaugh-8075_army_obama-s-marxist-mentors-franklin-marshal_1737193.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0e/david-limbaugh-8075_army_obama-s-marxist-mentors-franklin-marshal_1737193.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0e/david-limbaugh-8075_army_obama-s-marxist-mentors-franklin-marshal_1737193.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Obama's Marxist mentors - Franklin Marshall Davis, Saul Alinsky and Bill Ayers - also understood that you…” — David Limbaugh", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 9, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "[Barack] Obama isn't pointing to anyone, and certainly doesn't like it when others note (correctly) that his influences were the likes of Saul Alinsky, the Chicagoan and modern founder of community organizing, or Frank Marshall Davis, the communist journalist and agitator from Chicago who mentored Obama in Hawaii in the latter 1970s, and who Obama warmly acknowledges in his memoirs.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Paul Kengor" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-kengor/barack-obama-isn-t-pointing-to-anyone-and-certainly-doesn-t-like-it/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b0a/paul-kengor-14302_acknowledge_barack-obama-isn-t-pointing-to-anyone-an_1938904.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b0a/paul-kengor-14302_acknowledge_barack-obama-isn-t-pointing-to-anyone-an_1938904.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b0a/paul-kengor-14302_acknowledge_barack-obama-isn-t-pointing-to-anyone-an_1938904.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“[Barack] Obama isn't pointing to anyone, and certainly doesn't like it when others note (correctly) that his…” — Paul Kengor", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I kind of make my life an open book as long as the left exists to use Saul Alinsky tactics to destroy people, your background is going to be fair game. If you're a human being who has behaved as a human, they're going to use anything that you've done wrong against you. I've lived my public life as openly as possible so that they can't rip something out of my closet to use against me.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Andrew Breitbart" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-breitbart/i-kind-of-make-my-life-an-open-book-as-long-as-the-left-exists-to-use/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b7a/andrew-breitbart-2046_backgrounds_i-kind-of-make-my-life-an-open-book-as-l_2216189.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b7a/andrew-breitbart-2046_backgrounds_i-kind-of-make-my-life-an-open-book-as-l_2216189.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b7a/andrew-breitbart-2046_backgrounds_i-kind-of-make-my-life-an-open-book-as-l_2216189.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I kind of make my life an open book as long as the left exists to use Saul Alinsky tactics to destroy…” — Andrew Breitbart", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Saul Alinsky advised his followers to level sharp attacks against their opponents with the goal of goading them into rash counterattacks that would then discredit them. To avoid falling into this trap, those of us who are interested in civil discussion should prepare ourselves to refrain from reacting in fear or anger to those who disagree with us or even attack us.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ben Carson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-carson/saul-alinsky-advised-his-followers-to-level-sharp-attacks-against/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d45/ben-carson-3320_goals_saul-alinsky-advised-his-followers-to-le_3010638.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d45/ben-carson-3320_goals_saul-alinsky-advised-his-followers-to-le_3010638.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d45/ben-carson-3320_goals_saul-alinsky-advised-his-followers-to-le_3010638.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Saul Alinsky advised his followers to level sharp attacks against their opponents with the goal of goading…” — Ben Carson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 12, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The New Left in the 1960s was obsessed with consciousness raising. Saul Alinsky, a mentor to Obama and Hillary, devoted a large part of his training seminars to consciousness raising. Today Black Lives Matter and other left-wing groups routinely conduct consciousness-raising workshops as part of their protest training. All of this is a replacement of Marx’s notion of historical inevitability with the recognition that people don’t agitate of their own accord; their grievances have to be created or at least interpreted for them, and they have to be stirred up to get off their butts and take action.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Dinesh D'Souza" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dinesh-d-souza/the-new-left-in-the-1960s-was-obsessed-with-consciousness-raising/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e29/dinesh-d-souza-2242_black-lives-matter_the-new-left-in-the-1960s-was-obsessed-w_1901844.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e29/dinesh-d-souza-2242_black-lives-matter_the-new-left-in-the-1960s-was-obsessed-w_1901844.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e29/dinesh-d-souza-2242_black-lives-matter_the-new-left-in-the-1960s-was-obsessed-w_1901844.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The New Left in the 1960s was obsessed with consciousness raising. 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