Quote

In a fight almost anything goes. It almost reaches the point where you stop to apologize if a chance blow lands above the belt.

Saul Alinsky

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Saul Alinsky
Age: 63 †
Born: 1909
Born: January 30
Died: 1972
Died: June 12
Activist
Human Rights Activist
Sociologist
Trade Unionist
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Saul David Alinsky
Anything
Fight
Goes
Belt
Land
Apologize
Stop
Belts
Almost
Lands
Fighting
Reaches
Chance
Apologizing
Point
Blow

More quotes by Saul Alinsky

Image
The only people who become disillusioned are people who have illusions.
Saul Alinsky
Image
You cannot meet today's crisis tomorrow.
Saul Alinsky
Image
An organizer working in and for an open society is in an ideological dilemma to begin with, he does not have a fixed truth - truth to him is relative and changing everything to him is relative and changing.... To the extent that he is free from the shackles of dogma, he can respond to the realities of the widely different situations.
Saul Alinsky
Image
In the beginning the organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems.
Saul Alinsky
Image
The threat is generally more terrifying than the thing itself.
Saul Alinsky
Image
America's corporations are a spiritual slum, and their arrogance is the major threat to our future as a free society.
Saul Alinsky
Image
A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
Saul Alinsky
Image
Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.
Saul Alinsky
Image
The despair is there now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.
Saul Alinsky
Image
The very first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom -- Lucifer.
Saul Alinsky
Image
Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you are free to live.
Saul Alinsky
Image
Last guys don't finish nice.
Saul Alinsky
Image
Change comes from power, and power comes from organization. In order to act, people must get together.
Saul Alinsky
Image
The prerequisite for an ideology is possession of a basic truth.
Saul Alinsky
Image
The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
Saul Alinsky
Image
The end is what you want and the means is how you get it.
Saul Alinsky
Image
Always remember the first rule of power tactics power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
Saul Alinsky
Image
Action comes from keeping the heat on. No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.
Saul Alinsky
Image
The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.
Saul Alinsky
Image
History is a relay of revolutions.
Saul Alinsky