# Quote — Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals

> Dostoevski said that taking a new step is what people fear the most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and chance the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution.

- Author: [Saul Alinsky](https://www.leafyquotes.com/saul-alinsky.md)
- Book: [Rules for Radicals](https://www.leafyquotes.com/saul-alinsky/rules-for-radicals.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/saul-alinsky/rules-for-radicals/dostoevski-said-that

## More from this book

> Change comes from power, and power comes from organization. In order to act, people must get together.

p. 113 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/saul-alinsky/rules-for-radicals/change-comes-from.md)

> To say that corrupt means corrupt the ends is to believe in the immaculate conception of ends and principles. The real arena is corrupt and bloody. Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.

p. 24 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/saul-alinsky/rules-for-radicals/to-say-that.md)

> 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.

p. 128 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/saul-alinsky/rules-for-radicals/the-fourth-rule.md)