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

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as "cute."

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

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.

It is always the young that make the change. You don't get these ideas when you're middle-aged. Young people have daring, creativity, imagination and personal computers. Above all, what you have as young people that's vitally needed to make social change, is impatience. You want it to happen now. There have to be enough people that say, ‘We want it now, in our lifetime.’ This is your moment. This is your opportunity. Be adventurists in the sense of being bold and daring. Be opportunists and seize this opportunity, this moment in history, to go out and save our country. It's your turn now.