The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
ABBIE HOFFMANThere is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
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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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Fantasy is the only truth.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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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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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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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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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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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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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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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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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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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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