The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.

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.

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

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

Why must ignorance be destroyed? Because it is the number one destroyer of the people of God

People fail forward to success.

Every person has a revolution beating within his or her chest

Everybody who has ever been snubbed, you know that is very humiliating.

As the world of science has grown in size and in power, its deepest problems have changed from the epistemological to the social.

As a boy, when I was bad, my mother would chew me out in Spanish. And since I was bad a lot, I learned a lot of Spanish!

Ignoring the mind is a beautiful sadhana. This is what many of the sages did. They ignored the mind out of existence. It loses its influence and its potency when it is ignored.

Earth has one angel less and heaven one more, since yesterday.

I never have the nagging doubt of wondering whether perhaps I am wrong.

The essential challenge is to transform the isolation and self-interest within our communities into connectedness and caring for the whole.