Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
ABBIE HOFFMANThe ’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 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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Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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It’s going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People’s Park, all rolled into one.
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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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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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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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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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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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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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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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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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Life-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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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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Fantasy is the only truth.
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Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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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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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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I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.
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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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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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To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.
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