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!
ABBIE HOFFMANIn 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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Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
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The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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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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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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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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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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A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.
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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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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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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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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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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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