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Last guys don't finish nice.
Never let a crisis go to waste
History is a relay of revolutions.
Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.
You cannot meet today's crisis tomorrow.
A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
Control healthcare and you control the people
If the ends don't justify the means, what does?
A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
Change means movement. Movement means friction.
Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.
The only nonpartisan people are those who are dead.
Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.
Never do for someone what they can do for themselves.
Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem.
The end is what you want and the means is how you get it.
Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.
The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.
The most unethical of all means is the non-use of any means.
Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
The threat is generally more terrifying than the thing itself.
The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.
The prerequisite for an ideology is possession of a basic truth.
The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.
Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
The establishment can accept being screwed, but not being laughed at
Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you are free to live.
Dogma, Whatever Form It Takes, Is The Ultimate Enemy Of Human Freedom.
The first step in community organization is community disorganization.
The most effective means are whatever will achieve the desired results.
The only people who become disillusioned are people who have illusions.
It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.
In the beginning the organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems.
If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.
The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.
No issue can be negotiated unless you first have the clout to compel negotiation.
Asking a sociologist to solve a problem is like prescribing an enema for diarrhea.
Power just goes to two poles — to those who've got money, and those who've got people.
Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular.
As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be.
A free and open society is an ongoing conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises.
Our world has always had two kinds of changers, the social changers and the money changers.
The third rule of ethics of means and ends is that in war the end justifies almost any means.
The Capone gang was actually a public utility; it supplied what the people wanted and demanded.
Liberals like people with their heads, radicals like people with both their heads and their hearts.
The thirteenth rule of radical tactics: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
Action comes from keeping the heat on. No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.
Change comes from power, and power comes from organization. In order to act, people must get together.
One’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s personal interest in the issue.