Quotes by Saul Alinsky

• Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.
• The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.
• Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
• 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.
• 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.
• Last guys don't finish nice.
• History is a relay of revolutions.
• 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.
• Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
• We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it.