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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."
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"We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society founded upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution. The Revolution is in the individual spirit, or it is nowhere. It is for all, or it is nothing. If it is seen as having any end, it will never truly begin."
"Quite like religious fundamentalism, educational fundamentalism is based upon bookish creeds created by the self-proclaimed authority figures of the system. And this very fundamentalism is the cause of all the growing conflicts between the student-body of the education society and the teachers running that society. These conflicts further become tools of exploitation in the hands of a handful of war-mongering, authoritarian, blood-sucking politicians."
"The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing."
"Every revolution starts with the aim to help the poor, but when the poor get it they forget who they were and become the new oppressors. The cycle goes on forever."
"You can carry out a spiritual revolution by making God's truth the head of everything."
"Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten."
"The revolution of consciousness is connected to the food revolution."
"There are times when it is conservative to be a revolutionary, when the world must be turned on its head in order to be stood on its feet."
"Sometimes all a country needs is an entire collapse for a new beginning!"
"Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start a revolution, and bravely go forward."
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"Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man."
"Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty."
"I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife."
"I'm a human being, I'm a friend, I'm a mom, I'm a writer, and I'm an artist. I do play electric guitar and all of that, but in the end, I'm just a person."
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