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.
ABBIE HOFFMANThe 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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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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If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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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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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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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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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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It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
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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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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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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
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Fantasy is the only truth.
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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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