Words from Tyler Durden


Actually, they’re words from Saul Alinsky.  Palahniuk’s characters, and Project Mayhem, were clearly influenced by the classic radical organizer.

“Great dangers always accompany great opportunities.  The possibility of destruction is always implicit in the act of creation.  Thus the greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.”

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