I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
ABBIE HOFFMANThe only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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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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It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.
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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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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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..you just get stoned, get the ideas in your head and then do ’em. And don’t bullshit. I mean that’s the thing about doin’ that guerrilla theatre. You be prepared to die to prove your point.
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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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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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A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power. We are not interested in the greening of Amerika except for the grass that will cover its grave.
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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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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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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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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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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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Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they’ll tell you it’s to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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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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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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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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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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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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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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It’s going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People’s Park, all rolled into one.
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