If you live in a democracy, it's very tiring to be always surrounded by great and high abstract generalisations which are, in fact, the most banal and naive cliches dug out of second-rate movements of the late 19th century.


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The job of the organizer is to maneuver and bait the establishment so that it will publicly attack h...
SAUL ALINSKY
Everybody owned stock in the Capone mob; in a way, he was a public benefactor. I remember one time w...
SAUL ALINSKY
I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the 'black people's CNN.' Well no...
SAUL WILLIAMS
I spent a great deal of my life being ignored. I was always very happy that way.
SAUL LEITER
Being ignored is a great privilege. That is how I think I learned to see what others do not see and ...
SAUL LEITER
To the organizer, compromise is a key and beautiful word. It is always present in the pragmatics of ...
SAUL ALINSKY
There were about 30 children at one stage, running around like savages at a place called Callow Hill...
SAUL DAVID
Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn...
SAUL BELLOW
With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - ...
SAUL BELLOW
In the early hours of 16 December 1944, the Germans launched their last great offensive of the Secon...
SAUL DAVID
The first Romanov ruler was just 16 when he was crowned Tsar Michael I in Moscow in 1613, thus endin...
SAUL DAVID
The organizer dedicated to changing the life of a particular community must first rub raw the resent...
SAUL ALINSKY
It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical t...
SAUL KRIPKE
My only fixed truth is a belief in people: a conviction that if people have the opportunity to act f...
SAUL ALINSKY
Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
SAUL BELLOW
Given the gruesome fate of the last Tsar, Nicholas II, and his family, and the fact that five of the...
SAUL DAVID
The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of ...
SAUL STEINBERG
Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you h...
SAUL BELLOW
There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argumen...
SAUL BELLOW
California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me ...
SAUL BELLOW
Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately...
SAUL BELLOW
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
SAUL BELLOW
In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
SAUL BELLOW
The original project began because we know the universe is expanding. Everybody had assumed that gra...
SAUL PERLMUTTER
It's sweating the small stuff.
SAUL KLEIN
When I was growing up, nothing unpleasant was shown in the home. And when I was in art school, the o...
PETER SAUL
Conventional turbines only work up to 200 feet, but capturing a small fraction of the global wind en...
SAUL GRIFFITH
I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.
SAUL BELLOW
Our plans are to keep the colt, and of course we've already started dreaming. I guess that's why we'...
AL SAUL
Passion moves freely across borders, speaks every language, and flourishes in every culture. The mov...
SAUL ZAENTZ
I worked hard at my four-year M.A., but got a 2.1. That was a big disappointment, as I wanted to wri...
SAUL DAVID
Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators.
SAUL PERLMUTTER
First rule of change is controversy. You can't get away from it for the simple reason all issues...
SAUL ALINSKY
Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
SAUL ALINSKY
You are so much more exposed. With an acoustic instrument, so much is laid bare to the ear, and ther...
SAUL GROPMAN
We're excited because it's tripled what we thought it would do. It's 19,000 square feet, great fun. ...
AL SAUL
She had a colt by Western Hanover. He's gorgeous according to Bob Brady, who told me that for a firs...
AL SAUL
One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.
SAUL BELLOW
,Said Shotgun to the Head.
SAUL WILLIAMS
Some powerful magnificence not human in other words, seemed under me. And it was the same mild pink ...
SAUL BELLOW
I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and perfecting childhoo...
SAUL STEINBERG
I'm very excited about the resurgence of vinyl which seems to parallel a growing interest in liv...
SAUL WILLIAMS