Saul Alinsky Quotes

See, I'm a subverter at heart.

I'm a real rebel with a cause.

To rebel against a powerful political, economic, religious, or social establishment is very dangerous and very few people do it, except, perhaps, as part of a mob. To rebel against the “scientific” establishment, however, is the easiest thing in the world, and anyone can do it and feel enormously brave, without risking as much as a hangnail.

We've always been hardcore rebels.

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.

I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.

If a rock band throws a TV set out of a hotel window, it's seen as anti-Establishment.

It's never popular among young people to be part of the establishment.

For me the safety pin is about rebellion, and I'm punk in the soul.

When I was younger, I just thought that my plans were probably going to be more exciting than my parents' plans or the establishment. I sort of got by on being a little bit of a rebel.

You can't change the world without a certain amount of healthy willingness to break the rules.

I always wanted to be the outlaw. And that's to a certain extent how I've lived.

Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.

What is a rebel? A man who says no.

History pays more attention to reformers than others. We pay more attention to dissenters too.

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

I make no concessions to conformism.

I was always fighting the establishment, trying to run through brick walls.

In the end, I was the only one with any anarchy left in me.

I'm really attracted to anti-heroes, and I'm a little bit of a troublemaker myself, and a little bit of a rule-breaker, and I like spies.

Individuals fighting or rebelling against the status quo, the establishment, is good for drama.

I was a troublemaker. For a long time, I didn't fit in.

This is what the establishment is scared of: Of joy, the sense of humour, of irony.

I am from a rebel blood line.

I've always been a guy who goes against everything people say.