Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
ABBIE HOFFMANThe best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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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.
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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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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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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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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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Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.
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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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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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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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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 first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
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