Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
ABBIE HOFFMANIt’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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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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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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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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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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