Rules For Radicals Quotes

Control healthcare and you control the people

If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.

Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.

The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.

The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.

Change comes from power, and power comes from organization. In order to act, people must get together.

The most unethical of all means is the non-use of any means.

Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.

Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.

As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be.

Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.

The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.