Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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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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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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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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
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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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The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that’s about tenth or eleventh on their list.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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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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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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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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If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
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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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