Saul Quotes

If I’d only known which [photographs] would be very good and liked, I wouldn’t have had to do all the thousands of others.

The key to making things understandable is to understand what it's like NOT to understand.

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.

The most effective means are whatever will achieve the desired results.

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.

she stuck a bookmark in my heart and walked away

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.

If we're gonna progress as a people we are going to realise that, as one of my favourite poets says, the other is a lie. There are no other people. Race is a social construct.

In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too

Information anxiety is the black hole between data and knowledge, and it happens when information doesn't tell us what we want or need to know.

Sometimes our thoughts and feelings are our most prized possessions... and then there are times to let go of your possessions and wander.

Power just goes to two poles — to those who've got money, and those who've got people.

From the moment an organizer enters a community, he lives, dreams, eats, breathes, sleeps only one thing, and that is to build the mass power base of what he calls the army.

You only understand information relative to what you already understand.

I surrendered my beliefs and found myself at the tree of life injecting my story into the veins of leaves only to find that stories like forests are subject to seasons

Most of us do not even know how to ask a question. Most of us do not see the root of the word 'question' is 'quest'. Most of us don't have a quest in our life.

Strict seriousness was far more dangerous than any joke.

Accept ignorance; pay more attention to the question than the answer; never be afraid to go in the opposite direction.

Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.

If I had a child of school age, I would send him to one of the Waldorf Schools.

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

There is nothing more negligent than attempting to address a problem one finds on a branch than by censoring the leaves.

The organization of information actually creates new information.

A weekday edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in seventeenth-century England

I think that good writing is based on good reading. Maybe it's not about writing today, maybe it's about reading today. Maybe it's about finding the sort of book you would never read.

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.

I dance for no reason, for reasons you can't dance, Call me an activist of intellectualized circumstance You can't learn my steps until you unlearn your thoughts Spirit, soul, can't be store-bought.

I admired a tremendous number of photographers, but for some reason I arrived at a point of view of my own.

Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.

My love is my soul's imagination. How do I love you? Imagine.

The job of the organizer is to maneuver and bait the establishment so that it will publicly attack him as a “dangerous enemy.

There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.

Learning can be defined as the process of remembering what you are interested in.

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches.

In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California.

The life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the meaning of human life history has ever seen. Man's life is not a business.

I wish I could have skipped college.

Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.

Action comes from keeping the heat on. No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.

Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

The thirteenth rule of radical tactics: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.

Asking a sociologist to solve a problem is like prescribing an enema for diarrhea.

One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.

People never forget things, they just never remembered it in the first place because it was too boring

With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything.