I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win.

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

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

Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there's peace. Well, I ain't for that peace at all.

My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.

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.

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.

Star, pillows don't attack dogs, " Sam said."Or anything else, " Turtle added.

Courage is to act on your beliefs or opinions especially in spite of criticism.Not to act on someones idea of what your courage should be....

We can all have plenty of lives, but there are limits. You never can tell what they are.

I weep for the stupidity of my sins.

It is not the size of the ring, but the size of the love.

Baby bye Here's a fly Let us watch him you and I. How he crawls Up the walls Yet he never falls.

I don’t approve of religion.

New York is ultimately not the synthesis but merely the sum of its unfathomable subjectivities, its personal histories, its uncategorisable figures.

It may be that Satan has little cause to fear most preaching. Yet past experiences sting him to rally all his infernal army to fight against God's people praying.

The fact that we can describe the motions of the world using Newtonian mechanics tell us nothing about the world. The fact that we do, does tell us something about the world.