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.

The threat is generally more terrifying than the thing itself.

Dogma, Whatever Form It Takes, Is The Ultimate Enemy Of Human Freedom.

The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.

Change means movement. Movement means friction.

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

Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)