I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
ABBIE HOFFMANI believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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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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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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It’s going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People’s Park, all rolled into one.
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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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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.
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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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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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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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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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Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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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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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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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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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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