The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
ABBIE HOFFMANI 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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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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Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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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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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
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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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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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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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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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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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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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