Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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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It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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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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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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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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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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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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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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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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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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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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