Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
ABBIE HOFFMANNever impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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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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Maintain a sense of humor. People who take themselves too seriously are power-crazy. If they win it will be haircuts for all. Beware of power freaks.
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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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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 just want to do what has to be done so much. I’ll never understand why everyone else doesn’t feel this way.
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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 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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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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Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
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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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..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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Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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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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My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
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