[b]Saul D. Alinsky
Others sick with guilt and not knowing where to turn or what to do went berserk. These were the Weathermen and their like: they took the grand cop-out, suicide.[/b]
He wondered: why am I still around?
A reformation means that masses of our people have reached the point of disillusionment with past ways and values. They don’t know what will work but they do know that the prevailing system is self-defeating, frustrating, and hopeless. They won’t act for change but won’t strongly oppose those who do. The time is then ripe for revolution.
Clinton in 2020!
There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man’s faith in himself and in his power to direct his future.
Going on two decades now.
The men who pile up the heaps of discussion and literature on the ethics of means and ends are passionately committed to a mystical objectivity where passions are suspect. They assume a nonexistent situation where men dispassionately and with reason draw and devise means and ends as if studying a navigational chart on land.
And we know who they are right around the corner from.
In the politics of human life, consistency is not a virtue.
And certainly not objectively.
Most of us view the world not as it is but as we would like it to be. The preferred world can be seen any evening on television in the succession of programs where the good always wins—that is, until the late evening newscast, when suddenly we are plunged into the world as it is.
Nowadays of course you can’t even count on that.