Alinsky Rules Quotes

#1. The world of evil is only as evil as we allow it to be.

Joe Meno

#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. I would prefer my experiences in communication to have a growth-promoting effect, both on me and on the other, and I should like to avoid those communication experiences in which both I and the other person feel diminished.

Carl R. Rogers

#4. When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.

Marjane Satrapi

#5. 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

#6. For the Jew, Passover is a sign of salvation, of "God with us" at a particular historical moment in the past. For the Christian, Easter is a sign of "God with us" in the past, but with us now also and at a time to come, as well.

Joan D. Chittister

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

Saul Alinsky

#8. 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.

Saul Alinsky

#9. I always got my work done before playing.

Edwin Moses

#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. Anarchy is merely the illusion of liberty.

Stephan Attia

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

Saul Alinsky

#14. I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've had - I don't know what - the literary equivalent of a shower. Something that would start them thinking in a slightly different way, perhaps. That's what I think writers are for.

Doris Lessing

#15. Maybe I should just go home and ride my tractor.

Chuck Grassley

#16. Do not suffer a sudden impression to overbear your judgment.

Marcus Aurelius

#17. If there's one big thing you can take from Amy Poehler as a performer, it's committing, full on.

Andy Daly

#18. Control healthcare and you control the people

Saul Alinsky

#19. The night seemed suddenly defiled by the absence of music, as if the silence itself was injecting a sickness that only another song could cure.

Jake Vander Ark

#20. School is about learning to wait your turn, however long it takes to come, if ever. And how to submit with a show of enthusiasm to the judgment of strangers, even if they are wrong, even if your enthusiasm is phony.

John Taylor Gatto

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

Saul Alinsky

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

Saul Alinsky

#23. Kids today don't know that much about vinyl.

Martin Gore

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

Saul Alinsky