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Liberals like people with their heads, radicals like people with both their heads and their hearts.
— Saul Alinsky
Never do for someone what they can do for themselves.
— Saul Alinsky
Change comes from power, and power comes from organization.
— Saul Alinsky
The tactics of Saul Alinsky and Barack Obama are geared toward wealth redistribution.
— Monica Crowley
In his Social Contract, Rousseau noted the obvious, that Law is a very good thing for men with property and a very bad thing for men without property.
— Saul D. Alinsky
Action comes from keeping the heat on. No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.
— Saul D. Alinsky
A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
— Saul Alinsky
Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.
— Saul Alinsky
You cannot meet today's crisis tomorrow.
— Saul Alinsky
The preferred world can be seen any evening on television in the succession of programs where the good always wins
— Saul Alinsky
The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.
— Saul D. Alinsky
for Alinsky, democratic politics is basically a mechanism of legal extortion, justified by appeals to justice and equality. A
— Dinesh D'Souza
Mankind has been and is divided into three parts: the Haves, the Have-Nots, and the Have-a-Little, Want Mores.
— Saul Alinsky
The significant changes in history have been made by revolutions.
— Saul D. Alinsky
America's corporations are a spiritual slum, and their arrogance is the major threat to our future as a free society.
— Saul Alinsky
Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.
— Saul Alinsky
Never let a crisis go to waste
— Saul Alinsky
The end is what you want and the means is how you get it.
— Saul Alinsky
People always do the right thing for the wrong reason.
— Saul D. Alinsky
In a fight almost anything goes. It almost reaches the point where you stop to apologize if a chance blow lands above the belt.
— Saul Alinsky
One's concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one's personal interest in the issue.
— Saul Alinsky
Last guys don't finish nice.
— Saul D. Alinsky
The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.
— Saul Alinsky
A free and open society is an ongoing conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises.
— Saul Alinsky
The life of man upon earth is a warfare ... - JOB 7:1
— Saul D. Alinsky
Power goes to two poles-to those who've got the money and those who've got the people.
— Saul Alinsky
History is a relay of revolutions.
— Saul Alinsky
Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.
— Saul Alinsky
If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them.
— Saul D. Alinsky
There can be no such thing as a successful traitor, for if one succeeds he becomes a founding father. The
— Saul D. Alinsky
Control healthcare and you control the people
— Saul Alinsky
Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem.
— Saul D. Alinsky
I've never joined any organization - not even the ones I've organized myself. I prize my own independence too much.
— Saul Alinsky
If the ends don't justify the means, what does?
— Saul Alinsky
The most unethical of all means is the non-use of any means.
— Saul Alinsky
This is the world as it is. This is where you start.
— Saul D. Alinsky
Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.
— Saul Alinsky
The only nonpartisan people are those who are dead.
— Saul Alinsky
Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
— Saul Alinsky
Our world has always had two kinds of changers, the social changers and the money changers.
— Saul Alinsky
The Capone gang was actually a public utility; it supplied what the people wanted and demanded.
— Saul Alinsky
The third rule of ethics of means and ends is that in war the end justifies almost any means ...
— Saul Alinsky
Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.
— Saul Alinsky
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.
— Saul Alinsky
There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to direct his future.
— Saul Alinsky
Though some student activists of the 1960s may have idolized Alinsky, he didn't particularly idolize them.
— Bill Dedman
Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.
— Saul Alinsky
Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular.
— Saul Alinsky
True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within.
— Saul Alinsky
The job of the organizer is to maneuver and bait the establishment so that it will publicly attack him as a 'dangerous enemy.'
— Saul Alinsky
A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
— Saul Alinsky