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 Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'

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Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string.

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

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

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I only ever play Vegas one night at a time. It's a hideous, gaudy place; it may not be the end of the world per se, but you can certainly see it from there.

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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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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.

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I love kids, but they are a tough audience.

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

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

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

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

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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'm a nomad. A Jewish road warrior. I do not have a concept of home. I wish I did. But I live with the idea that we have to get out of town before dawn.

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There is a difference between being self-interested and being selfish. I will never be selfish.

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I was a fugitive, taking risks with my life. I chose that. I chose to be a volunteer to go to Guatemala when they were having their earthquake, to help people with a team of doctors.

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I will say this: In order for the planet to survive, there are going to be acts of ecoterrorism.

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The majority of people were always sitting in the stands. When I find people who are willing to go against the grain, who are willing to make tremendous sacrifices to change an unjust situation - that's what blows my mind out.

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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

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I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

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Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

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Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow.

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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.

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You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.

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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

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One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.

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You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.

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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

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Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

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Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

Walter Benjamin

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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

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The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.

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Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.

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It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

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The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.

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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

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Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.

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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

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It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.

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Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

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The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.

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Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.

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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.

Abbie Hoffman

The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'

Robin Williams

Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string.

Robin Williams

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

Abbie Hoffman

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

Abbie Hoffman

I only ever play Vegas one night at a time. It's a hideous, gaudy place; it may not be the end of the world per se, but you can certainly see it from there.

Robin Williams

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.

Abbie Hoffman

Abbie Hoffman

Robin Williams

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

Abbie Hoffman

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

Abbie Hoffman

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

Abbie Hoffman

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

Abbie Hoffman

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

Abbie Hoffman

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

Abbie Hoffman

I'm a nomad. A Jewish road warrior. I do not have a concept of home. I wish I did. But I live with the idea that we have to get out of town before dawn.

Abbie Hoffman

There is a difference between being self-interested and being selfish. I will never be selfish.

Abbie Hoffman

I was a fugitive, taking risks with my life. I chose that. I chose to be a volunteer to go to Guatemala when they were having their earthquake, to help people with a team of doctors.

Abbie Hoffman

I will say this: In order for the planet to survive, there are going to be acts of ecoterrorism.

Abbie Hoffman

The majority of people were always sitting in the stands. When I find people who are willing to go against the grain, who are willing to make tremendous sacrifices to change an unjust situation - that's what blows my mind out.

Abbie Hoffman

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Abba Eban

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

Abba Eban

Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

Abba Eban

Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow.

Abba Eban

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Abba Eban

A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.

Abba Eban

You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.

Abba Eban

Abba Eban

A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

Abba Eban

One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.

Abba Eban

You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.

Aaron Sorkin

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Walter Benjamin

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Walter Benjamin

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

Walter Benjamin

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

Walter Benjamin

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

Walter Benjamin

Walter Benjamin

The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.

Walter Benjamin

Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.

Walter Benjamin

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.