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.
ABBIE HOFFMANDemocracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it’s something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.
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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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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 believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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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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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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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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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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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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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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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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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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