I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
ABBIE HOFFMANRandom political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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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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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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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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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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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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Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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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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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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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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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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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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