108 Quotes by Saul D. Alinsky

If one wants to act, the dilemma is how and where; there is no “when?” with time running out, the time is obviously now.

Dogma, Whatever Form It Takes, Is The Ultimate Enemy Of Human Freedom.

Citizen participation is the animating spirit and force in a society predicated on voluntarism. We.

Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.

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.

Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counteract ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.

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.

Ego must be so all-pervading that the personality of the organizer is contagious, that it converts the people from despair to defiance, creating a mass ego. CONFLICT.

The essence of Lenin’s speeches during this period was “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.” And it was.