KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Saul Alinsky Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Saul Alinsky

Showing 1-10 of 36 Quotes by Saul Alinsky

The first step in community organization is community disorganization.

~Saul Alinsky

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

~Saul Alinsky

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


First rule of change is controversy. You can't get away from it for the simple reason all issues are controversial. Change means movement, and movement means friction, and friction means heat, and heat means controversy.

~Saul Alinsky

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and chance the future.

~Saul Alinsky

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


People cannot be free unless they are willing to sacrifice some of their interests to guarantee the freedom of others. The price of democracy is the ongoing pursuit of the common good by all of the people.

~Saul Alinsky

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The organizer dedicated to changing the life of a particular community must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community.

~Saul Alinsky

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


If the ends don't justify the means, what does?

~Saul Alinsky

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.

~Saul Alinsky

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.

~Saul Alinsky

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: January 30th, 1909

Died: June 12th, 1972

Links

Find Saul Alinsky on Amazon

Related Authors

Susan B. Anthony
Cesar Chavez
Noam Chomsky
Rosa Parks
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Gloria Steinem
Harriet Tubman
Malcolm X

Popular Authors

Diogenes Pope Francis A. A. Milne Ben Shapiro Nikola Tesla Lao Tzu Gore Vidal Mae West

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1947 - Paulo Coelho

1759 - William Wilberforce

1810 - Theodore Parker

1872 - Max Beerbohm

1884 - Earl Derr Biggers

1890 - Duke Kahanamoku

1894 - Jean Rhys

1898 - Malcolm Cowley

1899 - Jorge Luis Borges

1899 - Albert Claude

Birthdays on August 24th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Art Beauty Dad Mom Mother's Day Patience Poetry Strength