Saul Alinsky

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

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.

— Saul Alinsky

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

— Saul Alinsky

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

— Saul Alinsky

Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara... are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport.

— Saul Alinsky