Saul Alinsky Quotes

Depeche Mode have never got over their teenage awkwardness with each other. We're still like that. Mates but not mates. That awkwardness is there, only now we have families and kids.

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

I've been dealing with politicians all my life. All my life. And I've always gotten them to do what I need them to do.

The reality is that when three or four networks are at the table with three or four political parties, someone is going to be the victim.

In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same.

If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.

What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises?

People may oppose you, but when they realize you can hurt them, they'll join your side.

The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.

Everyone has their price. You just have to find out what it is.

when greed and fear are linked to power, you have a dangerous mix. We see that in political life. In part of the world, the mix of greed and fear means that those who get power become reluctant to give it back. One of the many things I like and admire in our democracies are the norms that make our leaders hand over power when voters tell them to

One of the things that is so important, critical I think, in reading not just the founders but thousands of years as you put it, that discussion about corruption, is that you can't talk about the problem of corruption without talking about human nature.

'House Of Cards' with Kevin Spacey - I love how it portrays humans in power as just like the rest of us - but even worse.

This is the belief of the Left: You negotiate with evil, and get tough with your allies

She might not know what your routine is, but I do,” I said softly. “So put the lantern down. You’re not burning me yet, and we both know it.” “What’s she saying?” Sarah demanded, hobbling over. His white brows drew together, and I allowed a little smile to play on my lips. “Awfully bossy with you, isn’t she? Then again, it makes sense. She’s got the pants on, and you’re the one in the dress.

Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.

War seems to me to be a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such an abominable business. And yet so high, in spite of everything, is my opinion of the human race that I believe this bogey would have disappeared long ago, had the sound sense of the nations not been systematically corrupted by commercial and political interests acting through the schools and the Press

The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.

Everybody in life is struggling for power, and some people use morality and righteousness as a weapon, while others use different means, even passive aggression. From a distance, we are all fighting, and I am looking at this from a distance.

Never be put off by your target's anger; it is a sure sign of enslavement.

I think any time you deal with humans and the way they exploit one another and cause pain you are in the realm of politics, on some level.

The original of all great and lasting societies consisted not in the mutual good will men had toward each other, but in the mutual fear they had of each other.

I have plumbed the depth of human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right, and that is to be in power.

Inevitably the party trying to resolve a matter had to contend with the party most willing to exploit it.