Rules for Radicals Quotes

“This is not an ideological book except insofar as argument for change, rather than for the status quo, can be called an ideology; different people, in different places, in different situations and different times will construct their own solutions and symbols of salvation for those times.”
― Saul D. Alinsky, Rules for Radicals

“Thus the greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself. From”
― Saul D. Alinsky, Rules for Radicals

“What is the alternative to working “inside” the system? A mess of rhetorical garbage about “Burn the system down!” Yippie yells of “Do it!” or “Do your thing.” What else? Bombs? Sniping? Silence when police are killed and screams of “murdering fascist pigs” when others are killed? Attacking and baiting the police? Public suicide? “Power comes out of the barrel of a gun!” is an absurd rallying cry when the other side has all the guns.”
― Saul D. Alinsky, Rules for Radicals

“The standards of judgement must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be.”
― Saul D. Alinsky, Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals

“in which man can have the chance to live by values that give meaning to life.”
― Saul D. Alinsky, Rules for Radicals