All Saul Alinsky Quotes
- The establishment can accept being screwed, but not being laughed at Accept
- True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within. Cut
- No issue can be negotiated unless you first have the clout to compel negotiation. Clout
- Never do for someone what they can do for themselves. Funny
- The fourth rule is: "Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules." You can kill them with this, for they can no… Book
- Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule. Essential
- A good tactic is one that your people enjoy. Enjoy
- One’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s personal interest in the issue. Concern
- Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and… Criticism
- Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara... are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy… Airport
- The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our… Fantasy
- The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change. Change
- Let the liberal turn to the course of action, the course of all radicals, and the amused look vanishes from the face of society as… Action
- Life is an adventure of passion, risk, danger, laughter, beauty, love; a burning curiosity to go with the action to see what it is all… Action
- Lest we forget at least an over the shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology and history (and who is… Acknowledgment
- The human spirit glows from that small inner light of doubt whether we are right, while those who believe with certainty that they possess the… Believe
- Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem. Farthest
- Curiosity and irreverence go together. Curiosity cannot exist without the other. Curiosity asks, "Is this true?" "Just because this has always been the way, is… Agitating
- Love and faith are not common companions. More commonly power and fear consort with faith....Power is not to be crossed; one must respect and obey.… Common
- If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them. Even Think
- Action comes from keeping the heat on. No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough. Action
- Change means movement. Movement means friction. Change
- A free and open society is an ongoing conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises. Communism
- The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself. Enemy
- Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have. Enemy