“The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.”

Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.

Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.

..you just get stoned, get the ideas in your head and then do ’em. And don’t bullshit. I mean that’s the thing about doin’ that guerrilla theatre. You be prepared to die to prove your point.

Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.

To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.

Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.

Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they’ll tell you it’s to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.

When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.

Fantasy is the only truth.

The work that the kids saw around them was so odious, so boring, so worthless that they came to regard WORK as the only dirty four-letter word in the English language.

The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.

Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it’s something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.

Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.

Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this.

After 40 (old age for most of man’s history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.

They should bounce around a little, show some life and zip.

You know, Lincoln was funny. I don’t think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you’re funny.

A brand should strive to own a word in the mind of the consumer.

Trust the government? Why should we?

Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.

They should not expect an immediate reaction in return for their positive measures. It will take time.