Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
ABBIE HOFFMANNostalgia 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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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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If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
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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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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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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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Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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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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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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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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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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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.
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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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