The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
ABBIE HOFFMANExpedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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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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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
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The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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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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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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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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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 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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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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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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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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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.
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