Top 36 Quotes by Saul Alinsky

About Saul Alinsky

These are some quotes by American author Saul Alinsky Activist, who lived between January 30, 1909 and June 12, 1972.

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.

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

Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.

Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.

Saul Alinsky

To the organizer, compromise is a key and beautiful word. It is always present in the pragmatics of operation... If you start with nothing, demand 100 percent, then compromise for 30 percent, you're 30 percent ahead.

Saul Alinsky

Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Saul Alinsky

There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to direct his future.

There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to direct his future.

Saul Alinsky

As an organizer, I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be. That we accept the world as it is does not in any sense weaken our desire to change it into what we believe it should be - it is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going to change it to what we think it should be. That means working in the system.

Saul Alinsky

All change means disorganization of the old and organization of the new.

All change means disorganization of the old and organization of the new.

Saul Alinsky

It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people. In that event, you are not even a failure. You're just not there.

It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people. In that event, you are not even a failure. You're just not there.

Saul Alinsky

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Saul Alinsky

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

Saul Alinsky

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