The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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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Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there’s peace. Well, I ain’t for that peace at all.
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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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Fantasy is the only truth.
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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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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 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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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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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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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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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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To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.
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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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