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.
ABBIE HOFFMANRandom political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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Fantasy is the only truth.
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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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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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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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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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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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I 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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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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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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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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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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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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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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