Spouting quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara, which are as germane to our highly technological, computerized, cybernetic, nuclearpowered, mass media society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport.

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.

In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed.

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

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

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

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.