Saul David Alinsky Famous Quotes



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.

"When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters - one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity."


Saul David Alinsky Quotations






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"You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty without losing your sensitivity of mind. He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a patch for"
Dag Hammarskjld

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Aristotle

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
Charles De Gaulle

"Whatever is to make us better and happy, God has placed either openly before us or close to us."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.
Clifton Paul Fadiman

"We are all failures--at least, the best of us are."
James Barrie

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.
Alphonse Karr

"God bears with the wicked, but not forever."
Miguel de Cervantes

A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.
W C Fields

"When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats."
Claude Swanson