Rules For Radicals Quotes - Page 2

• Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

  Saul Alinsky

  Power, Thinking, Enemy

  Saul Alinsky (2016). “Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals”, p.5, Vintage

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• 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 to know where mythology leaves off and history begins - or which is which), the very first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom - Lucifer.

  Saul Alinsky

  Men, Firsts, Legends

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.9, Vintage

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• It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral.

  Saul Alinsky

  Angel, Men, Enemy

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.13, Vintage

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• The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

  Saul Alinsky

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Individuality

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.24, Vintage

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• 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.

  Saul Alinsky

  Christian, Book, Enemy

  Saul Alinsky (2016). “Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals”, p.6, Vintage

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• 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.

  Jon Voight

  Book, Fool, Administration

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• It is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going to change it to what we think it should be. That means working in the system.

  Saul

  Mean, Thinking, World

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• Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you are free to live.

  Saul Alinsky

  Death, Acceptance, Accepting

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• A revolution without a prior reformation would collapse or become a totalitarian tyranny. A reformation means that masses of our people have reached the point of disillusionment with past ways and values. They don't know what will work but they do know that the prevailing system is self-defeating, frustrating, and hopeless. They won't act for change but won't strongly oppose those who do. The time is then ripe for revolution

  Saul Alinsky

  Mean, Past, Self

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• The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.

  Saul Alinsky

  Successful, Alternatives, Community Organizing

  Saul Alinsky (2016). “Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals”, p.7, Vintage

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• 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 arises. The man of action views the issue of means and ends in pragmatic and strategic terms. He has no other problem; he thinks only of his actual resources and the possibilities of various choices of action. He asks of ends only whether they are achievable and worth the cost; of means, only whether they will work. ... The real arena is corrupt and bloody.

  Saul Alinsky

  Real, Mean, Men

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• Spouting quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara, which are as germane to our highly technological, computerized, cybernetic, nuclearpowered, mass media society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport.

  Saul Alinsky

  Airports, Political, Politics

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• 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

  Fighting, Blow, Land

  Saul Alinsky (2016). “Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals”, p.7, Vintage

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• Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.

  Saul Alinsky

  Life, Mother, Children

  "Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals" by Saul Alinsky, (pp. 24-25), 1971.

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• Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.

  Saul Alinsky

  Mean, Creativity, New Beginnings

  Saul Alinsky (2016). “Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals”, p.5, Vintage

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• Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!

  George Washington Carver

  New Beginnings, Today Not Tomorrow, Words Of Wisdom

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• A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.

  Saul Alinsky

  Long, Tactics, Drag

  Saul Alinsky (2016). “Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals”, p.6, Vintage

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• Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.

  Saul Alinsky

  Book, Enemy

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• As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be.

  Saul Alinsky

  Reality, World, Organizer

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.19, Vintage

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• The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.

  Saul Alinsky

  Radical, Written

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.3, Vintage

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• 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 wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be.

  Saul Alinsky

  World, Fantasy, Judgment

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.26, Vintage

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• 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.

  Saul Alinsky

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

  "The Best Quotes From Saul Alinsky’s 'Rules For Radicals'" by John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. May 03, 2010.

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• To say that corrupt means corrupt the ends is to believe in the immaculate conception of ends and principles.

  Saul Alinsky

  Believe, Mean, Principles

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.24, Vintage

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  I'd rather die on my feet, than live on my knees.

  Emiliano Zapata

  Life, Positive, Death

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• Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

  Saul

  Target, Community Organizing, Picks

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