In the beginning the organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems.

The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.

True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within.

They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet.

Control healthcare and you control the people

Never let a crisis go to waste

History is a relay of revolutions.

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.

The fourth rule is: "Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules." You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.

The establishment can accept being screwed, but not being laughed at

If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them.

To become a leader through one’s merit karma is not a big deal. One should become a leader through his virtues [innate qualities].

Freedom - that word that the human spirit feeds: that no one can explain, and anyone who does not understand.

We're [as parents] striving for an unattainable, inauthentic shell, and ignoring the real nut, the gooey inside: love, laughter, and fulfillment from simple things.

After a couple of years of public high school, I went to Exeter - an insane conglomeration of adolescent males in the wilderness, all of whom claimed to hate poetry.

I don't believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.

Israel is a wonderful country. It's a beautiful country. It is ours. But it is a country with 10,000 problems that we have to solve and deal.

I try to see each new season as a new challenge because I have a new team to work with, new opponents to encounter, and often new ideas and theories to try

In war, moral factors acount for three quarters of the whole; relative material strength accounts for only one quarter.

Anything that makes it easier to imagine trading places with someone else increases your moral consideration for that other person.

I like being straightforward. We can deal with anything as long as it's on the table.