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ABBIE HOFFMANThe only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
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I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win.
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Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?
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In this state, dig it, you get twenty years for sale of dope to a minor. You only get five to ten for manslaughter. So like, the thing is, if you’re selling to a kid and cops come, shoot the kid real quick!
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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Wouldn’t you want to be indicted by the govenment for a high crime? It’s a great thrill. It’s an honor. It’s a compliment. It’s fun. I’m enjoying every minute of it!
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If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
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The ’60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.
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