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Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.

Abbie Hoffman

Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they’ll tell you it’s to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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College Education Race Truth Two Usually
Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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Advice Cow Hamburger Sacred Tastiest
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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Breakfast Duty Eat Hippie Liberty Political Second
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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Feeling Fighting General Power Thinking Win Winning
The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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Best Educate Oneself Revolution Way
If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
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Awfully Drug Good Music Rock Sex
Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
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Change Hippie Ideology Liberty Process Revolution Something
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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Authority Democracy Disrespect Kid
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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Appear Hair Long Support Tried
I just want to do what has to be done so much. I’ll never understand why everyone else doesn’t feel this way.
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Done Everyone Much Want Way
Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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Content Important Information Structure Transmission
Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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Dope Drug Funny Needle Political Shooting
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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Corporate Internationalist Life Machine Respect Robot War
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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Around Dirty Four Kid Saw Work
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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Educate Idea Inform List Media Ridiculous
What if when they called a war, no one went?
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Call Question War

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