Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The preferred world can be seen any evening on television in the succession of programs where the good always wins
Saul Alinsky
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Winning
Preferred
Good
Succession
Always
Wins
World
Programs
Evening
Program
Television
Seen
More quotes by Saul Alinsky
They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet.
Saul Alinsky
Change comes from power, and power comes from organization. In order to act, people must get together.
Saul Alinsky
Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.
Saul Alinsky
Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular.
Saul Alinsky
If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them.
Saul Alinsky
Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.
Saul Alinsky
The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
Saul Alinsky
Power just goes to two poles — to those who've got money, and those who've got people.
Saul Alinsky
In the beginning the organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems.
Saul Alinsky
The only people who become disillusioned are people who have illusions.
Saul Alinsky
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
Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.
Saul Alinsky
My only fixed truth is a belief in people, a conviction that if people have the opportunity to act freely and the power to control their own destinies, they'll generally reach the right decisions.
Saul Alinsky
Change means movement. Movement means friction.
Saul Alinsky
Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.
Saul Alinsky
In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of the common good and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed.
Saul Alinsky
America's corporations are a spiritual slum, and their arrogance is the major threat to our future as a free society.
Saul Alinsky
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
A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
Saul Alinsky
Spouting quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara, which are as germane to our highly technological, computerized, cybernetic, nuclearpowered, mass media society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport.
Saul Alinsky
