Tao Te Ching
Rules for Radicals
By Saul Alinsky
Blueprint for community organizing, for the poor and oppressed to effectively change their situation, for the the disempowered to use guerrilla tactics to confront the powerful; this book counterposes Machiavelli’s book of strategy for the 1% rich and powerful to maintain their privilege with a guide to the poor for evening out the inequality.
Quotes from Rules for Radicals
“Curiosity and irreverence go together, cannot exist without each other.”
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“If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them.”
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“It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.”
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“It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral”
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“Mendoza said to Tanner, ‘I am a brigand; I live by robbing the rich.’ Tanner replied, ‘I am a gentleman; I live by robbing the poor. Shake hands.’”
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“Revolutions do not go backward [but] a revolution without a prior reformation would collapse or become a totalitarian tyranny.”
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“See the world as it is: an arena of power politics moved primarily by perceived immediate self-interests, where morality is rhetorical rationale for expedient action and self-interest.”
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“Some say it’s no coincidence that the question mark is an inverted plow, breaking up the hard soil of old beliefs and preparing for the new growth.”
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“To the questioner, nothing is sacred, he detests dogma, defies any finite definition of morality, rebels against any repression of a free, open search of ideas no matter where they may lead.”
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“Who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins - or which is which?”
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