# Quote — Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals

> It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people. In that event you are not even a failure. You're just not there.

- 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: 81
- 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/it-does-not

## 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)