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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.

Lay off the needle drugs. The only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.

My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburgers.

When I appear in the Chicago courtroom, I want to be tried not because I support the NLF - which I do - but because I have long hair.

Fantasy is the only truth.

The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.

It's embarrassing ... you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?

I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.

Sacred Cows make the BEST Hamburger

There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!

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.

Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.

Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.

I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win.

What if when they called a war, no one went?

The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.

Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.

When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.

The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.

Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.

I just want to do what has to be done so much. I'll never understand why everyone else doesn't feel this way.

Life actors never rehearse and need no script. A life actor uses only what is available, nothing more, nothing less.

It's too late. We can't win, they've gotten too powerful.

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.

Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a
commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.

If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.

You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.

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.

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.

Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there's peace. Well, I ain't for that peace at all.

The 60's are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.

It's going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People's Park, all rolled into one.

The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going.

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.