Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
ABBIE HOFFMANRandom political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.
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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.
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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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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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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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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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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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Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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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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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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Fantasy is the only truth.
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that’s about tenth or eleventh on their list.
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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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