Tactics Quotes - Page 16

• I think that sometimes conservatives are way too naive to understand the zeal that liberals have in trying to destroy using Alinsky tactics the very humanity of their conservative opponents.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Thinking, Humanity, Trying

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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• I kind of make my life an open book as long as the left exists to use Saul Alinsky tactics to destroy people, your background is going to be fair game. If you're a human being who has behaved as a human, they're going to use anything that you've done wrong against you. I've lived my public life as openly as possible so that they can't rip something out of my closet to use against me.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Rip, Book, Games

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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• No liberal newspaper ever talked about the invasion of Vietnam; they talked about the defense of Vietnam. And then they were saying, "well, it's not going well." Ok, that make them liberal. It's like, it's if we were to say, that going back to, say, Nazi Germany, that Hitler's general staff was liberal after Stalingrad because they were criticizing his tactics: "It was a mistake to fight a two front war, we should've knocked off Englad first," or something.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Mistake, Fighting

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• 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.

  Ani DiFranco

  Thinking, People, Focus

  Source: www.elle.com

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• We must stop being polite and behaved and find new inventive tactics to shift the paradigm. We are the majority.

  Eve Ensler

  Majority, Polite, Paradigm

  "One Billion Rising" by Eve Ensler, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2012.

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• I'm not into western medicine. That to me is a complete scare tactic.

  Bill Maher

  Scare Tactics, Medicine, Western

  Interview with Larry King, transcripts.cnn.com. December 15, 2005.

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• A thinking man is the worst enemy the Prince of Darkness can have; every time such an one announces himself, I doubt not there runs a shudder through the nether empire; and new emissaries are trained with new tactics, to, if possible, entrap and hoodwink and handcuff him.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Running, Men, Thinking

  Thomas Carlyle (1834). “Fraser's Magazine”, p.191

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• A good tactic is one your people enjoy.

  Saul

  People, Enjoy, Rules For Radicals

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• Dr. Roboy, in Litvak's measured view, had a vice common to believers: He was all strategy and no tactics. He was prone to move for the sake of moving, too focused on the goal to bother with the intervening sequence.

  Michael Chabon

  Moving, Views, Goal

  "The Yiddish Policemen's Union". Book by Michael Chabon, 2007.

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• Revolutionary tactics cannot be invented by leaders; they must develop spontaneously-history comes first, leaders' consciousness second.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Leader, Firsts, Revolution

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• There is something about video marketing that helps it stay apart from the other online marketing tactics. When done correctly, all you need is one video marketing campaign to build up highly targeted traffic for a really long time.

  Carey Lowell

  Long, Marketing, Needs

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• You cannot underestimate people's ability to spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away. It's a big reason why so many companies that have dipped a toe in social media waters have failed miserably.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Media, Water, People

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• Wal-Mart's success strategies and tactics are easy to understand yet hard to duplicate.

  Michael Bergdahl

  Strategy, Easy, Duplicate

  Michael Bergdahl (2004). “What I Learned From Sam Walton: How to Compete and Thrive in a Wal-Mart World”, p.1, John Wiley & Sons

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• War on terror' is a misnomer. It would be like calling America's involvement in World War II a 'war on kamikazism.' Terrorism, like kamikazism, is a tactic.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  War, America, Would Be

  "Eyeing the Enemy". Interview with Kathryn Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. January 16, 2007.

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• 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.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Fighting, Moon

  Sun Tzu (2013). “The Art of War”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• President Obama has been attacking relentlessly. In 2008 he said that if you're out of fresh ideas you use stale tactics against your opponent - you try and make your opponent unacceptable and that's what he is trying to do.

  Rob Portman

  Ideas, Trying, President

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• If I had a crush on a guy, my tactic was to tell them I had a crush on them. And they always thought it was super-cute, so it usually worked in my favor!

  Leven Rambin

  Cute, Crush, Guy

  "What Was Leven Rambin Like at 17?". Interview with Ellen Collis, www.seventeen.com. January 9, 2012.

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• I locate a great deal of the power of Occupy Wall Street in the name itself, 'Occupy Wall Street,' or '#OccupyWallStreet.' It works because the name contains everything you need to know: the tactic and the target. The name is also modular. You can create your own offshoot in your own city.

  Dana Spiotta

  Wall, Cities, Names

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• Jay-Z ain't a manager; he owns a management company. He been through this, he been through the game for a long time so he knows tactics in taking artists in certain directions we need to go in.

  Meek Mill

  Artist, Games, Long

  Interview with Sowmya Krishnamurthy, www.askmen.com. November 6, 2012.

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• I was certainly never conscious of 'playing the woman'. I would not have approved of that. It is not a winning tactic. I operated in the world as I found it, and it was a man's world.

  Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

  Winning, Men, World

  "Pauline Neville-Jones: 'Some say I didn't make it easy on myself'". Interview with Nick Hopkins, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2011.

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• My tactics were, by God's aid, to employ every means to make it clear what the requirement of Christianity truly is.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Mean, Requirements, Christianity

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• Advertising is just a symptom, a tactic. Marketing is about far more than that.

  Seth

  Marketing, Advertising, Symptoms

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• Security is not a license for people in authority to hide the tactics they would never openly admit to using.

  Jack Campbell

  People, Authority, Security

  Jack Campbell (2012). “Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier: Invincible”, p.140, Penguin

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• As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, Violence, Failing

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “The Essential Chomsky”, p.82, The New Press

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• I will not stand by while the special interests use the same old tactics to keep things exactly the way they are ... Not this time. Not now.

  Barack Obama

  Special, Use, Way

  United States. President (2009- : Obama), Barack Obama (2009). “The President's Address Before a Joint Session of Congress: Message from the President of the United States Transmitting the President's Address Before a Joint Session of Congress”

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