There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
ABBIE HOFFMANRevolution 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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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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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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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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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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Wouldn’t you want to be indicted by the govenment for a high crime? It’s a great thrill. It’s an honor. It’s a compliment. It’s fun. I’m enjoying every minute of it!
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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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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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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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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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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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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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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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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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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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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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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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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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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.
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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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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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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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