The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
ABBIE HOFFMANAction is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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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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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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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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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 believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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It’s going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People’s Park, all rolled into one.
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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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If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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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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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I’ve learned that lesson twice now.
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In this state, dig it, you get twenty years for sale of dope to a minor. You only get five to ten for manslaughter. So like, the thing is, if you’re selling to a kid and cops come, shoot the kid real quick!
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