Top 26 Saul D. Alinsky Quotes

#1. Last guys don't finish nice.

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#2. Political realists see the world as it is: an arena of power politics moved primarily by perceived immediate self-interests, where morality is rhetorical rationale for expedient action and self-interest.

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#3. The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

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#4. 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;

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#5. You regard yourself as tolerant, and in that one adjective you most fittingly describe yourself. You really don't like people you tolerate them. You are very tolerant, MR. BUT.

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#6. In the beginning the organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems.

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#7. Love and faith are not common companions. More commonly power and fear consort with faith ... Power is not to be crossed; one must respect and obey. Power means strength, whereas love is a human frailty the people mistrust. It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.

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#8. 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.

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#9. The human spirit glows from that small inner light of doubt whether we are right, while those who believe with certainty that they possess the right are dark inside and darken the world outside with cruelty, pain, and injustice.

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#10. The life of man upon earth is a warfare ... - JOB 7:1

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#11. If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them.

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#12. Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem.

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#13. 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

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#14. Today everything is so complex as to be incomprehensible. What sense does it make for men to walk on the moon while other men are waiting on welfare lines, or in Vietnam killing and dying for a corrupt dictatorship in the name of freedom?

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#15. 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

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#16. Do one of three things.One,go 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 delegatepos

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#17. 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.

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#18. This is the world as it is. This is where you start.

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#19. There can be no such thing as a successful traitor, for if one succeeds he becomes a founding father. The

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#20. The standards of judgement 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.

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#21. Life is an adventure of passion, risk, danger, laughter, beauty, love; a burning curiosity to go with the action to see what it is all about, to go search for a pattern of meaning, to burn one's bridges because you're never going to go back anyway, and to live to the end.

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#22. The history of prevailing status quos shows decay and decadence infecting the opulent materialism of the Haves. The spiritual life of the Haves is a ritualistic justification of their possessions.

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#23. The significant changes in history have been made by revolutions.

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#24. Curiosity, irreverence, imagination, sense of humor, a free and open mind, an acceptance of the relativity of values and of the uncertainty of life, all inevitably fuse into the kind of person whose greatest joy is creation.

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#25. Action comes from keeping the heat on. No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.

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#26. People always do the right thing for the wrong reason.

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