Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
ABBIE HOFFMANMy 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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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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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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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. I think I’ve learned that lesson twice now.
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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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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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..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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Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
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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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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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Fantasy is the only truth.
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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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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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Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.
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