Saul Alinsky Quotes

Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and chance the future.

Saul Alinsky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ChangeAttitudeFuturePastPeople

My dad, who I'm very close to, is one of those men where once you're in, once he loves you, that's it, no questions about it.

Jesse Plemons

MenQuestionsYouWhereWhoHe

I don't like rules.

Jeremy Irons

RulesLike

Unfortunately, hardworking, academically gifted young people are kind of lazy when it comes to determining direction.

Andrew Yang

PeopleDirectionYoungLazyKind

Like a lot of films at the end of 2008, they hit a wall with financing, which is why I moved back onto 'Stone.' In doing so, I had to let go of 'The Beautiful and the Damned,' to at least give them an opportunity to move forward with somebody else.

John Curran

OpportunityBeautifulForwardEndGo

For 'Spartacus,' we've committed 100 percent of our production time to creating great scenes. So all the training I do is on my own time. And that's pretty limited.

Andy Whitfield

GreatTimeTrainingCreatingMy Own

To me, I was just doing my job when I took the field, but to understand how close I came to death, I now realize what God has given me when he brought me into this world; he knew what he was doing.

Rod Carew

GodJobDeathMeWorldDoing

I wrote a little autobiography about how luck has to do with everything. It's called 'My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business.' A publisher came to me and said, 'Write a book,' so I did. I wanted to call it 'Everybody Else Has Got a Book.'

Dick Van Dyke

With comedy, it's a combination of knowing the comedic beat was good - it made you laugh, it made people on the crew laugh. With drama, you do something deep and if your stuff was really effective, the ultimate result is silence. Silence is not necessarily... that would also be the result if you sucked.

Chris Pratt

GoodSilencePeopleDeepLaughYou

Oliver Stone's strategy is to unnerve the actors so as to make them alert and alive.

Claire Danes

StrategyStoneAliveMakeAlert

The Palestinians need more help from the Arab countries. Since 1967, the world has learned that there is not going to be real progress in the region until Palestine gets something back that they had.

Bruce Dern

ProgressWorldHelpBackMoreNeed

Focusing isn't just an optical activity, it is also a mental one.

Bridget Riley

MentalActivityJustOpticalAlso

Television has always been something you watch; now, increasingly, it is also something you do.

Anne Sweeney

YouTelevisionNowAlwaysSomething

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