The fact that people are poor or discriminated against doesn't necessarily endow them with any special qualities of justice, nobility, charity or compassion.

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

Action comes from keeping the heat on. No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.

The third rule of ethics of means and ends is that in war the end justifies almost any means.

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.

Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.

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