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

Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.

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

The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.

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.

An organizer working in and for an open society is in an ideological dilemma to begin with, he does not have a fixed truth - truth to him is relative and changing; everything to him is relative and changing.... To the extent that he is free from the shackles of dogma, he can respond to the realities of the widely different situations.

It should be borne in mind that the target is always trying to shift responsibility to get out of being the target. There is a constant squirming and moving and strategy . . . on the part of the designated target. The forces for change must keep this in mind and pin that target down securely. If an organization permits responsibility to be diffused and distributed in a number of areas, attack becomes impossible.