Saul Alinsky Quotes

"The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself."
- Saul Alinsky
(Related: Enemy, Freedom)

"Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have."
- Saul Alinsky
(Related: Power, Enemy)

"Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in."
- Saul Alinsky
(Related: Life, Death, Care, Cause, Reputation)

"Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life."
- Saul Alinsky
(Related: Life, Politics, Time, Mother, Father, Bed, Corruption, Play)

"Last guys don't finish nice."
- Saul Alinsky

"History is a relay of revolutions."
- Saul Alinsky
(Related: History)

"Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict."
- Saul Alinsky
(Related: Change, Conflict, World)

"Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have."
- Saul Alinsky
(Related: Power, Enemy, First)

"A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family."
- Saul Alinsky
(Related: Family, Community, First)

"We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it."
- Saul Alinsky
(Related: Dawn, Will, World)