I just want to do what has to be done so much. I’ll never understand why everyone else doesn’t feel this way.
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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Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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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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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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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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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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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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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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..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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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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Wouldn’t you want to be indicted by the govenment for a high crime? It’s a great thrill. It’s an honor. It’s a compliment. It’s fun. I’m enjoying every minute of it!
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In this state, dig it, you get twenty years for sale of dope to a minor. You only get five to ten for manslaughter. So like, the thing is, if you’re selling to a kid and cops come, shoot the kid real quick!
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