# Quote — Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals

> For an elementary illustration of tactics, take parts of your face as the point of reference; your eyes, your ears, and your nose. First the eyes; if you have organized a vast, mass-based people’s organization, you can parade it visibly before the enemy and openly show your power. Second the ears; if your organization is small in numbers, then do what Gideon did: conceal the members in the dark but raise a din and clamor that will make the listener believe that your organization numbers many more than it does. Third, the nose; if your organization is too tiny even for noise, stink up the place.

- Author: [Saul Alinsky](https://www.leafyquotes.com/saul-alinsky.md)
- Book: [Rules for Radicals](https://www.leafyquotes.com/saul-alinsky/rules-for-radicals.md)
- Page: 126
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Saul_Alinsky#Rules_for_Radicals:_A_Practical_Primer_for_Realistic_Radicals_(1971)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/saul-alinsky/rules-for-radicals/for-an-elementary

## 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)