Never do for someone what they can do for themselves.

A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.

The second rule is: Never go outside the experience of your people. When an action is outside the experience of the people, the result is confusion, fear, and retreat.

Liberals like people with their heads, radicals like people with both their heads and their hearts.

The organizer must become schizoid, politically, in order to slip into becoming a true believer. Before men can act an issue must be polarized. Men will act when they are convinced their cause is 100 percent on the side of the angels and that the opposition are 100 percent on the side of the devil. He knows there can be no action until issues are polarized to this degree.

One’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s personal interest in the issue.

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.