Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
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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.
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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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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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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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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.
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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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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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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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