Fantasy is the only truth.
ABBIE HOFFMANOnce you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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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.
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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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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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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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In this state, dig it, you get twenty years for sale of dope to a minor. You only get five to ten for manslaughter. So like, the thing is, if you’re selling to a kid and cops come, shoot the kid real quick!
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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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If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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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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A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power. We are not interested in the greening of Amerika except for the grass that will cover its grave.
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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 too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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