Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
ABBIE HOFFMANExpedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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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 best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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I learned one thing; you never do anything for fame or money. You only do things ’cause they’re fun or good. If you can combine the two at the same time, you can make a contribution to the world and have a lot of happiness.
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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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Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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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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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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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
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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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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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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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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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