Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
ABBIE HOFFMANLife-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.
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The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
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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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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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..you just get stoned, get the ideas in your head and then do ’em. And don’t bullshit. I mean that’s the thing about doin’ that guerrilla theatre. You be prepared to die to prove your point.
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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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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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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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Fantasy is the only truth.
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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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The ’60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.
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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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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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