The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
ABBIE HOFFMANI learned one thing; you never do anything for fame or money. You only do things ’cause they’re fun or good. If you can combine the two at the same time, you can make a contribution to the world and have a lot of happiness.
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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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Fantasy is the only truth.
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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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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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Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.
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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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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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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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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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Maintain a sense of humor. People who take themselves too seriously are power-crazy. If they win it will be haircuts for all. Beware of power freaks.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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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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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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