Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
ABBIE HOFFMANIt’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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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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Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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The ’60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.
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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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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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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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..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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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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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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A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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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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