“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.”

Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?

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.

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.

If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.

Wouldn’t you want to be indicted by the govenment for a high crime? It’s a great thrill. It’s an honor. It’s a compliment. It’s fun. I’m enjoying every minute of it!

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

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.

What if when they called a war, no one went?

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.

Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.

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.

It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.

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.

The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.

The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.

The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.

Nothing good happens after midnight, nothing good happens when you’re around guns unless you’re going hunting, and you don’t want to mess around with women that you don’t know because a lot of times, bad things happen.

You’ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you’re not alive.

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

Think on your toes, use what’s around you, and come up with something organic and fun.

Jesse McCartney is one of the nicest people around.

Son, we’d like to keep you around this season but we’re going to try and win a pennant.

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.