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.
ABBIE HOFFMANThere is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I’ve learned that lesson twice now.
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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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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I’ve learned that lesson twice now.
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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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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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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
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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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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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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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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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