There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
ABBIE HOFFMAN
I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
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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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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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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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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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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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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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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 ’60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.
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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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If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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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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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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