I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.
ABBIE HOFFMANNostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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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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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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It’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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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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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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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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