Alinsky Rules For Radicals Quotes

#1. 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

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

Saul Alinsky

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

Saul Alinsky

#4. 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

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

Saul Alinsky

#6. 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

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

William Cowper

#8. Control healthcare and you control the people

Saul Alinsky

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

Octavia E. Butler

#10. 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

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

Pete Cashmore

#12. 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

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

Saul Alinsky

#14. I have made a lot of mistakes.

Steven Seagal

#15. 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

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

Saul Alinsky

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

Saul Alinsky

#18. 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

#19. I studied cooking all through high school.

Liam Hemsworth

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

Jeremy Taylor

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

Saul Alinsky

#22. Relax your panties

P.C. Cast

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. '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