Change comes from power, and power comes from organization.
Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.
The very first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom – Lucifer.
The end is what you want and the means is how you get it.
Control healthcare and you control the people.
The thirteenth rule of radical tactics: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
No issue can be negotiated unless you first have the clout to compel negotiation.
It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.
Change means movement. Movement means friction.
Do one of three things. One, go and find a wailing wall and feel sorry for yourselves. Two, go psycho and start bombing – but this will only swing people to the right. Three, learn a lesson. Go home, organize, build power and at the next convention, you be the delegates.
The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.
Last guys don’t finish nice.
The only nonpartisan people are those who are dead.
The ninth rule of the ethics of means and ends is that any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical.
It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people. In that event you are not even a failure. You’re just not there.
Democracy is alive, and like any other living thing it either flourishes and grows or withers and dies. There is no in-between. It is freedom and life or dictatorship and death.
Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular.
To say that corrupt means corrupt the ends is to believe in the immaculate conception of ends and principles.
The fact that people are poor or discriminated against doesn’t necessarily endow them with any special qualities of justice, nobility, charity or compassion.
The only people who become disillusioned are people who have illusions.