“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!”

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.

If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.

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

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.

What if when they called a war, no one went?

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.

Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.

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.

It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.

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.

The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.

The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.

There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!

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.

The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.

Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.

The sweetest thing a guy said is that I look pretty with or without makeup.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl.

I’m a sucker for a compliment.

I don’t give out compliments easily.

You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.

Their compliments should not define you and nor should their criticism break you.