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.

Last guys don't finish nice.

The fourth rule is: "Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules." You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.

The organizer must become schizoid, politically, in order to slip into becoming a true believer. Before men can act an issue must be polarized. Men will act when they are convinced their cause is 100 percent on the side of the angels and that the opposition are 100 percent on the side of the devil. He knows there can be no action until issues are polarized to this degree.

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

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you are free to live.