108 Quotes by Saul D. Alinsky

Do one of three things. One, go and 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.

A free and open society is an ongoing conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises.

The most unethical of all means is the non-use of any means.

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. I.

My only fixed truth is a belief in people, a conviction that if people have the opportunity to act freely and the power to control their own destinies, they’ll generally reach the right decisions.

Conflict is the essential core of a free and open society. If one were to project the democratic way of life in the form of a musical score, its major theme would be the harmony of dissonance.

These are the days when man has his hands on the sublime while he is up to his hips in the muck of madness.

In a fight almost anything goes. It almost reaches the point where you stop to apologize if a chance blow lands above the belt.

In the politics of human life, consistency is not a virtue.