Rules For Radicals Quotes by Saul Alinsky, Jon Voight, Niels Bohr, Saul, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Abraham Lincoln and many others.
The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
Do not let the Obama administration fool you with all their cunning Alinsky methods. 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.
Change comes from power, and power comes from organization. In order to act, people must get together.
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
A good tactic is one your people enjoy.
To say that corrupt means corrupt the ends is to believe in the immaculate conception of ends and principles.
They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet.
Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.
The third rule of ethics of means and ends is that in war the end justifies almost any means.
If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.
As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be. That we accept the world as it is does not in any sense weaken our desire to change it into what we believe it should be – it is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going to change it to what we think it should be.
In a fight almost anything goes. It almost reaches the point where you stop to apologize if a chance blow lands above the belt.
Do one of three things. One, go find a wailing wall and feel sorry for yourselves. Two, go psycho and start bombing – but this will only swing people to the right. Three, learn a lesson. Go home, organize, build power and at the next convention, you be the delegates.
Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.
The preferred world can be seen any evening on television in the succession of programs where the good always wins
Action comes from keeping the heat on. No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.
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 more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.
