The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
ABBIE HOFFMANThe only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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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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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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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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Random political acts produce random political 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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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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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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Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
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My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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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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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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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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When I appear in the Chicago courtroom, I want to be tried not because I support the NLF – which I do – but because I have long hair.
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