Love and faith are not common companions. More commonly power and fear consort with faith....Power is not to be crossed; one must respect and obey. Power means strength, whereas love is a human frailty the people mistrust. It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.

It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral.

The only people who become disillusioned are people who have illusions.

The thirteenth rule of radical tactics: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.

As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be.

Change means movement. Movement means friction.