There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
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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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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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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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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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I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.
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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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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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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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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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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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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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