Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there’s peace. Well, I ain’t for that peace at all.
ABBIE HOFFMANI learned one thing; you never do anything for fame or money. You only do things ’cause they’re fun or good. If you can combine the two at the same time, you can make a contribution to the world and have a lot of happiness.
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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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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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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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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.
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The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.
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Fantasy is the only truth.
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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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Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
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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.
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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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I just want to do what has to be done so much. I’ll never understand why everyone else doesn’t feel this way.
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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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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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