Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
ABBIE HOFFMANEvery 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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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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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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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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Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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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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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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The work that the kids saw around them was so odious, so boring, so worthless that they came to regard WORK as the only dirty four-letter word in the English language.
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.
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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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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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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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