Always remember the first rule of power...

First Power

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

- Saul Alinsky

Quote of the Day

Many people believe that the current system must inevitably end in total annihilation. They reject, sometimes very emotionally, any attempts to analyze this notion.

- Herman Kahn

Other quotes by Saul Alinsky

Family First

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.

- Saul Alinsky

Last guys don't finish nice.

- Saul Alinsky

Enemy Freedom

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

- Saul Alinsky

Care Life

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.

- Saul Alinsky

Change World

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.

- Saul Alinsky

History

History is a relay of revolutions.

- Saul Alinsky

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We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.

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The present U.N. must be annihilated by our power. That is the stage for Communists. We must make a new U.N.

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