The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
ABBIE HOFFMANFree speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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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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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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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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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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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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Fantasy is the only truth.
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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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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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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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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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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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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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..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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