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.

A free and open society is an ongoing conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises.

The most effective means are whatever will achieve the desired results.

The organizers first job is to create the issues or problems, and organizations must be based on many issues. The organizer must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community; fan the latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expression. He must search out controversy and issues, rather than avoid them, for unless there is controversy people are not concerned enough to act. . . . An organizer must stir up dissatisfaction and discontent.

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

In a fight almost anything goes. It almost reaches the point where you stop to apologize if a chance blow lands above the belt.

We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it.