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 HOFFMANWhen decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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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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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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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.
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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Fantasy is the only truth.
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The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.
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Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?
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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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If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
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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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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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The 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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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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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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