There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
ABBIE HOFFMANThe first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
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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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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 only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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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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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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If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
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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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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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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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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I’ve learned that lesson twice now.
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