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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.
Soon to be a Major Motion Picture (1980)
All you kiddies remember to lay off the needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
You ask, "What about the innocent bystanders?" But we are in a time of revolution. If you are a bystander, you are not innocent.
Revolution for the Hell of It (1968)
You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
Revolution for the Hell of It (1968)
Free speech is the right to shout "Theater!" in a crowded fire.
Soon to be a Major Motion Picture (1980)
The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
Revolution for the Hell of It (1968)
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.
Soon to be a Major Motion Picture (1980)
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
Revolution for the Hell of It (1968)
If this guy is God, then this is the God that the United States of America deserves.
Comment about Maharaji Ji - video (1973)
My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
Soon to be a Major Motion Picture (1980)
Dealing, although dangerous, is a tax-free way of surviving even though it borders on work.
Steal This Book (1971)
It's perhaps fitting that I write this introduction in jail.
Steal This Book (1971)
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.
The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going.
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.
Steal This Book (1971)
I only regret that I have but one shirt to give for my country.
In Woodstock Nation there are no writers—only poet-warriors.
Woodstock Nation (1969)
Your universities teach you to be eternal cynics, a cynicism that can be only drowned in alcohol and diet pills and psychoanalysts and golf. Forget your cynicism. There is not one who has more respect for life than a revolutionist.
Woodstock Nation (1969)