[b]Saul Alinsky
This is the world as it is. This is where you start.[/b]
That can’t be good.
Curiosity and irreverence go together. Curiosity cannot exist without the other. Curiosity asks, “Is this true?” Just because this has always been the way, is the best or right way of life, the best or right religion, political or economic value, morality? To the questioner, nothing is sacred. He detests dogma, defies any finite definition of morality, rebels against any repression of a free, open search of ideas no matter where they may lead. He is challenging, insulting, agitating, discrediting. He stirs unrest.
He is nearly extinct.
If people don’t think they have the power to solve their problems, they won’t even think about how to solve them.
Not counting those who really don’t.
Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you’re free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in. We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it.
He thought: Did I actually once believe that?!!
Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem.
No, really, think about that.
It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral…
That’s what it is alright.