One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.

Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem.

As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be. That we accept the world as it is does not in any sense weaken our desire to change it into what we believe it should be - it is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going to change it to what we think it should be.

The classic statement on polarization comes from Christ: 'He that is not with me is against me.' (Luke 11:23) He allowed no middle ground to the moneychangers in the Temple. One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.

The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be.

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

In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed.