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.
ABBIE HOFFMANIf you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
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It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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It’s going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People’s Park, all rolled into one.
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A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power. We are not interested in the greening of Amerika except for the grass that will cover its grave.
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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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Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.
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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.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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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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Maintain a sense of humor. People who take themselves too seriously are power-crazy. If they win it will be haircuts for all. Beware of power freaks.
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