If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
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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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.
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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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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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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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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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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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Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it’s something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.
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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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Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.
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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.
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Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
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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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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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