Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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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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.
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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
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If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
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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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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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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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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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It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
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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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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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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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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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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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