Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
ABBIE HOFFMANOnce you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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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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Every 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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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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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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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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Fantasy is the only truth.
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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.
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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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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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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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