Alinsky Rules For Radicals Quotes

#1. I have made a lot of mistakes.

Steven Seagal

#2. '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

#3. Never believe extraordinary characters which you hear of people. Depend upon it, they are exaggerated. You do not see one man shoot a great deal higher than another.

Samuel Johnson

#4. 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

#5. Relax your panties

P.C. Cast

#6. The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.

Saul Alinsky

#7. It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.

Jeremy Taylor

#8. I studied cooking all through high school.

Liam Hemsworth

#9. Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun's melting rays. Dreams and a restlessness of the soul came to him.

Hermann Hesse

#10. Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.

Saul Alinsky

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

Saul Alinsky

#12. You persuade people with passion, so you've got to have a product or service you feel emotionally charged about. Then you can tell stories about it that will inspire others.

Anita Roddick

#13. For my prom, I wore a white suit with a burgundy shirt, tie and cummerbund, along with white shoes, a white trilby and a cane. I was extra fly that day.

Ne-Yo

#14. Change comes from power, and power comes from organization.

Saul Alinsky

#15. I grew up thinking anything was possible simply because of seeing women in power - like, you know, running the country. Which is a thought that continues to give Americans indigestion ... Direction is about having a vision, but the practice of being a director is a con game - a confidence game.

Mira Nair

#16. You just want to be judged against everyone fairly.

Pete Cashmore

#17. I think it's sad to me that I had to make a decision to not play the game that I feel like I'm best at and that I love. But if it was just about the game itself, I'd be there in a heartbeat. But that's not how the real world works.

Tiffeny Milbrett

#18. She learned quickly that it was not good to be too different. Great differences caused envy, suspicion, fear, charges of witchcraft.

Octavia E. Butler

#19. Control healthcare and you control the people

Saul Alinsky

#20. Blest be the art that can immortalize,
the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.

William Cowper

#21. We think we need to create ourselves, always doing a paste-up job on our personalities. That is because we're trying to be special rather than real. We're pathetically trying to conform with all the other people trying to do the same.

Marianne Williamson

#22. The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.

Saul Alinsky

#23. I removed 'cyberspace' from my vernacular. The idea, which I grew up with, of going into a place separate from the real world, is something my students just don't recognise.

Clay Shirky

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

Saul Alinsky

#25. If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.

Saul Alinsky