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  • Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

    Power   Thinking   Enemy  
    Saul Alinsky (2016). “Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals”, p.5, Vintage
  • Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.

  • I have very set and consistent principles, but I am flexible on tactics. I like to get the job done.

    Jobs   Principles   Done  
    "Blunt But Flexible" by Johanna McGeary, www.cnn.com. February 10, 1997.
  • The thirteenth rule of radical tactics: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

  • The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides.

    Usual   Tactics   Sides  
    "Excession (The Culture, Book 5)". Book by Iain Banks (Chapter 3 "Uninvited Guests", Section I, p. 66), 1996.
  • With proper tactics, nuclear war need not be as destructive as it appears.

    War   Needs   Nuclear  
  • In war the chief incalculable is the human will, which manifests itself in resistance, which in turn lies in the province of tactics. Strategy has not to overcome resistance, except from nature. Its purpose is to diminish the possibility of resistance, and it seeks to fulfil this purpose by exploiting the elements of movement and surprise.

    Military   War   Lying  
  • Perhaps anxious politicians may prove that only seventeen white men and five negroes were concerned in the late enterprise; but their very anxiety to prove this might suggest to themselves that all is not told. Why do they still dodge the truth? They are so anxious because of a dim consciousness of the fact, which they do not distinctly face, that at least a million of the free inhabitants of the United States would have rejoiced if it had succeeded. They at most only criticise the tactics.

    Men   White   Anxiety  
    Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.142, Cambridge University Press
  • Amateurs study tactics; professionals study logistics.

  • Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.

    Moving   Men   Tactics  
    Barbara Deming (1984). “We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader”
  • Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic.

  • So there's only one tactic for the state: kill the seers.

  • It's a deft trick to turn American exceptionalism into an exceptional political tactic.

  • I owe most to Georges Sorel. This master of syndicalism by his rough theories of revolutionary tactics has contributed most to form the discipline, energy and power of the fascist cohorts.

    "The New Inquisitions: Heretic-Hunting and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Totalitarianism" by Arthur Versluis, Oxford University Press, (p. 39), 2006.
  • In warfare, there are no constant conditions. He who can modify his tactics in relation to his opponent will succeed and win.

  • We believe firmly that Communism internally and externally can and must be fought without resort to the Communist tactics of the suppression of all individual freedom.

    Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”
  • I'm not into western medicine. That to me is a complete scare tactic.

    Interview with Larry King, transcripts.cnn.com. December 15, 2005.
  • Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.

    Saul Alinsky (2016). “Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals”, p.6, Vintage
  • Occupy was not a movement, it was a tactic. You can't sit forever in a park near Wall Street. You can't do it for more than a few months. It was a tactic I had not predicted. If people asked me, I would have said "don't do it." But it was a great success, an enormous success, with a big impact on people's thinking, on people's actions.

    Wall   Thinking   Impact  
    Source: pennpoliticalreview.org
  • I am personally not advocating violence. I am simply saying that it is a morally acceptable tactic and it may be useful in the struggle for animal liberation. I don't know.

  • People hate negative tactics, but the fact is, as the 3 a.m. ad demonstrates, they can be very effective.

    Hate   People   Negative  
    "Susan Estrich: Nasty Twists in Democratic Race" by Susan Estrich, www.foxnews.com. March 7, 2008.
  • If I try to use human influence strategies and tactics of how to get other people to do what I want, to work better, to be more motivated, to like me and each other-while my character is fundamentally flawed, marked by duplicity and insincerity-then, in the long run, I cannot be successful. My duplicity will breed distrust, and everything I do-even using so-called good human relations techniques-will be perceived as manipulative.

    Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.5, Simon and Schuster
  • In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory. Indirect tactics, efficiently applied, are inexhaustible as Heaven and Earth, unending as the flow of rivers and streams; like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more.

    Art   Fighting   Moon  
    Sun Tzu (2013). “The Art of War”, p.22, Simon and Schuster
  • For all their scare tactics, President Obama and Democrats have no plan whatsoever to preserve Medicare for future generations - or protect it for today's seniors and those nearing retirement. They did, however, cut Medicare by $700 billion to bankroll Obamacare.

  • The tea party had a lot of nasty tactics that were needlessly aggressive and petty and scary. But they proved it is indeed possible for a committed, relatively small number of folks across the country to make Congress listen to them and to slow and stop an agenda.

    Source: m.motherjones.com
  • The combination player thinks forward; he starts from the given position, and tries the forceful moves in his mind

    Emanuel Lasker (1960). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”, p.167, Courier Corporation
  • If there is a nuclear tactic being used here, I submit it is the use of that obstruction where a willful minority blocks a bipartisan majority from voting on the President's judicial nominees.

  • [Bashar] Assad himself has said on several occasions recently that if the people of Syria don't believe I should be there in the future, then I would step - I would leave. He has said it. He has, on occasion, hinted that he wants a political settlement of one kind or another. I think it's up to his supporters, his strongest supporters, to make it clear to him that if you're going to save Syria, Assad has made a set of choices - barrel bombing children, gassing his people, torturing his people, engaging in starvation as a tactic of war.

    Children   War   Believe  
  • My main tactic is to focus on the people I respect. The people I think are great people. Do I have their respect? Do I have their support? If the answer is "yes," then I'm doing ok.

    Thinking   People   Focus  
    Source: www.elle.com
  • One of the problems, frankly, the Republicans seem to have had is they don't like his [Donald Trump] personality, his tactics, but they basically agree with him on so many of the issues.

    Source: www.businessinsider.com
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