“The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that’s about tenth or eleventh on their list.”

When I appear in the Chicago courtroom, I want to be tried not because I support the NLF – which I do – but because I have long hair.

Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?

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.

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!

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.

When the revolutionary theory of government began to prevail, and Church and State found that they were educating for opposite ends and in a contradictory spirit, it became necessary to remove children entirely from the influence of religion.

Those who trust us educate us.

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.

I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money.

I’m very educated and can give you somewhat of a vocabulary, but I don’t get to the philosophical side.

So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He’s not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.

If I’m educated and passionate about a topic, I’ll answer the question. But I also know when to shut the hell up.

I just happen to believe that people are not stupid. And the way I will come at it is to educate people, help people to actually understand that it is that progressive movement that is causing them the problems.