Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
ABBIE HOFFMANWhat if when they called a war, no one went?
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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 embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
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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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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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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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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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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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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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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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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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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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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
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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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