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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

Abbie Hoffman

The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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College Destroy Reason Should
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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Abuse Clinical Legal Medical Political Understand
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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Brother Evil Immoral Institution Law Pig Pillar Sister Steal
The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
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Breakfast Revolution Second
Wouldn’t you want to be indicted by the govenment for a high crime? It’s a great thrill. It’s an honor. It’s a compliment. It’s fun. I’m enjoying every minute of it!
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Compliment Crime Fun Government Great High Honor Indicted Thrill
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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Alternative Anger Importantly Key Organize People Society
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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Depression Form Individual Nostalgia Society
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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Authority Decision Face Fighting Thinking Versus
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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Day First Inspirational Life Motivational Today
Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.
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Actor Available Less Life Need Rehearse Script
Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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Action Morality Reality Well
Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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Detail Image Important Right
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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Dope Great never Rock Roll Sex
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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Molotov Cocktail Random Violence Rocks
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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Done Everyone Much Want Way
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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Authority Democracy Disrespect Kid

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