The ’60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.
ABBIE HOFFMANUnderstand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I’ve learned that lesson twice now.
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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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The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that’s about tenth or eleventh on their list.
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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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If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
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A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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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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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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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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