Quotes by Saul Alinsky

Explore a curated collection of 14 quotes by Saul Alinsky. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

There were those few, and there will be more, who really liked people, loved people—all people. They were the human torc — Saul Alinsky
Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the ma — Saul Alinsky
It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people. In that event, you are not eve — Saul Alinsky
If the real radical finds that having long hair sets up psychological barriers to communication and organization, he cut — 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 h — Saul Alinsky
Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no lo — Saul Alinsky
I've never joined any organization - not even the ones I've organized myself. I prize my own independence too much. — Saul Alinsky
My only fixed truth is a belief in people: a conviction that if people have the opportunity to act freely and the power — Saul Alinsky
Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have. — Saul Alinsky
Radicals must be resilient, adaptable to shifting political circumstances, and sensitive enough to the process of action — Saul Alinsky
Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of w — Saul Alinsky
First rule of change is controversy. You can't get away from it for the simple reason all issues are controversial. Chan — 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 — Saul Alinsky
Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can move — Saul Alinsky