I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
ABBIE HOFFMANA 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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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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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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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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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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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.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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In this state, dig it, you get twenty years for sale of dope to a minor. You only get five to ten for manslaughter. So like, the thing is, if you’re selling to a kid and cops come, shoot the kid real quick!
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