Saul Alinsky Quotes

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Saul Alinsky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 30, 1909 - June 12, 1972

Topics

ChangeConflictWorldMovementMeans

Do you know, Michael, he was - he touched the hearts of many people around the world. That's important. That's why the world cried when he passed because they understood him.

Jermaine Jackson

PeopleWorldYouKnowImportantWhy

Because you can be lazy if you don't know the truth.

Meg White

TruthYouKnowLazyBecause

You have to start with slavery because those abuses have never been eradicated. You know, people are not living in slums because they voted to. You know, their children are not in jail because they wanted them to. You know, these are the results of a people who have been oppressed and suffer national oppression, you know.

Amiri Baraka

ChildrenPeopleSlaveryStartYou

Dinosaurs are the jumper cables to the human mind. Kids can't curb their enthusiasm when they're in a hall of dinosaurs and mammoths and mammoth hunters and trilobites and giant fish that could chomp up a shark. These natural objects in motion and context make kids want to read; you can't stop them from reading and thinking.

Robert T. Bakker

MindReadingThinkingFishYouStop

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.

Mason Cooley

SoulComfortMoreImmortalityThreat

For years, I was often afraid to speak up when I didn't fully understand a script. I'd tie myself in knots.

Michelle Dockery

MyselfSpeakUnderstandAfraidTie

We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I use my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process.

Michael Steele

ProcessYouQuotationSeeOutHere

On the day I started college in 1979, no woman had ever been on the United States Supreme Court or served as the Speaker of the House. None had been an astronaut or the solo anchor of a network evening news broadcast. Not one had been president of an Ivy League college or run a serious campaign for president.

Dee Dee Myers

DayWomanCollegeEveningHouseRun

Everyone can write jokes and makes things clever.

David Walton

CleverWriteEveryoneJokesThings

I love driving, but sometimes, I'm not too good at it because I spend too much time looking in the rearview mirror if I know I'm being followed. You don't respond like, 'Oh, there's paparazzi.' It's more like, 'There's a man, and he's going to attack me.' That's how your body responds.

Ashley Olsen

LoveGoodTimeMirrorManMe

The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

Peter Abelard

WisdomTruthKeyQuestionConstant

In the span of three years, the Iraqi people participated in three elections, drafted a constitution, and elected a new government. While more work remains, this is remarkable progress.

Tim Murphy

WorkProgressGovernmentPeopleNew

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Saul Alinsky