The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
ABBIE HOFFMANAvoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that’s about tenth or eleventh on their list.
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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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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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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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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.
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Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it’s something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.
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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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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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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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Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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