There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
ABBIE HOFFMANIt’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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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
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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 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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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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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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If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there’s peace. Well, I ain’t for that peace at all.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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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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Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
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