The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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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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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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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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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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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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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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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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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If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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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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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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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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