108 Quotes by Saul D. Alinsky

The threat is generally more terrifying than the thing itself.

Asking a sociologist to solve a problem is like prescribing an enema for diarrhea.

The end is what you want and the means is how you get it.

Mark Twain once put it, “The difference between the right word and the almost-right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.” Power.

The only nonpartisan people are those who are dead.

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.

History is a relay of revolutions.

People cannot be free unless they are willing to sacrifice some of their interests to guarantee the freedom of others.

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.