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Action Quotes by Saul Alinsky
- The second rule is: Never go outside the experience of your people. When an action is outside the experience of the people, the result is…
- The end is what you want, the means is how you get it. Whenever we think about social change, the question of means and ends…
- Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.
- Radicals must be resilient, adaptable to shifting political circumstances, and sensitive enough to the process of action and reaction to avoid being trapped by their…
- Organization for action will now and in the decade ahead center upon America's white middle class. That is where the power is. ... Our rebels…
- The practical revolutionary will understand Goethe's 'conscience is the virtue of observers and not of agents of action'; in action, one does not always enjoy…
- 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…
- 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 comes from keeping the heat on. No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.
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- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
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- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what… — Aristotle