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"Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary."
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"We imagined ourselves as the Sons of Liberty with a mission to preserve, protect, and project the revolutionary spirit of rock and roll. We feared that the music which had given us sustenance was in danger of spiritual starvation. We feared it losing its sense of purpose, we feared it falling into fattened hands, we feared it floundering in a mire of spectacle, finance, and vapid technical complexity."

"The revolution that counts is the one that takes place in the imagination; many kinds of change issue forth thereafter, some gradual and subtle, some dramatic and conflict-ridden--which is to say that revolution doesn't necessarily look like revolution."

"To destroy images is something every revolution has been able to do."

"One can take the path of revolution but the revolution should not give a shock to the society. There is no place for violence in revolution."

"A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal."

"The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that."

"It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes."

"The revolution of today is the oppression of tomorrow."

"Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering."

"The revolution of consciousness is connected to the food revolution."
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"A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished."

"People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy."

"A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him."

"Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker."

"From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots."

"Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others."

"I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure."
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