Saul Alinsky Quotes

Whatever sociology may be, it is the result of constantly asking the question, what is the meaning of this?

Violence now becomes the only tool by which we can actually mediate social problems that should be dealt with in very different ways.

You can't just throw people at all your problems, dear.

... good intentions are not sufficient to solve our problems.

Growth solves (nearly) all problems

Every solution of a problem raises new unsolved problems.

And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.

The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity. To turn caring into action, we need to see a problem, see a solution, and see the impact. But complexity blocks all three steps.

Our problems are technical, not political

It is difficult to understand precisely what the state hopes to achieve by promoting the creation and perpetuation of a subclass of illiterates within our boundaries, surely adding to the problems and costs of unemployment, welfare and crime.

Often, problems are knots with many strands, and looking at those strands can make a problem seem different.

What are we seeking to achieve? We are seeking to optimize budget spending. I believe that even in such uneasy times we employ a very pragmatic approach towards economic and social issues. We do address major social problems and deliver on our promises to our people.

Not all complex problems have easy solutions; so says science (so warns science.)

How do you get rid of the trash? It's out there in society, it's going on every day. You can educate children an awful lot easier than you can get rid of the trash.

Sociology is the science with the greatest number of methods and the least results.

The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but in our working at it incessantly.

Billionaires should never be responsible for solving problems, because they're not the government.

If you want to know how to solve society's problems, you start out with better public education.

To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.

Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.

Problems always appear big when incompetent men are working on them.

If a problem is too difficult to solve, one cannot claim that it is solved by pointing at all the efforts made to solve it.

Our national problems usually do not cause nearly as much harm as the solutions.

Every dimension of the gospel is relevant to one or more of our social and political problems of our time.

We try to solve very complicated problems without letting people know how complicated the problem was.