“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.”

I just want to do what has to be done so much. I’ll never understand why everyone else doesn’t feel this way.

The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.

I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”

Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.

Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.

Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.

..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.

Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.

To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.

Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.

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.

When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.

Fantasy is the only truth.

The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.

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.

I think I’m one of the friendliest celebrities around, because I’ll stop to talk to anybody who recognizes me.

We are often unaware of how much we love the people around us. This is true for everyone.

No matter what happens around us, or to us, through love, our soul reaches immortality, conquering all dimensions and all destinies.

The stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they linger, inhabiting a little corner of the reader’s brain and resurfacing to evoke mystery or sadness or longing.

Movements of people create change – not just any one person or organization, but when lots of people are in motion around a shared vision.

I’m not running around as a continual ray of sunshine. It’s just I don’t believe in wasting time feeling sorry for myself. Get over it.

What is my task? To get the gospel around the world in the shortest possible time to every man and woman and boy and girl!

I may call it jealousy, or may be anxiety and moreover, need. Even now I’m anxious at times because when I am with Ren, everything around feels like a dream.