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Quote by Saul Alinsky
Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have. – Saul Alinsky

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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

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Change
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Saul Alinsky
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Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara… are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport. – Saul Alinsky

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Quotations
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Saul Alinsky
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Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life. – Saul Alinsky

Category:
Politics
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Saul Alinsky
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He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense. – Joseph Conrad

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power

The corporate woman has been defined as the liberated woman and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was because shes so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power. – Kenny Loggins

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power

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged. – Aung San Suu Kyi

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power

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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power

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He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect better than Christianity and end in loving himself better than all. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff. – Adlai Stevenson, quoted in Ronald D. Fuchs, You Said a Mouthful

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