Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
ABBIE HOFFMANSmoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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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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Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they’ll tell you it’s to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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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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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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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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If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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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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I 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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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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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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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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Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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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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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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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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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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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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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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