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A government creates its own revolution. There can be no revolt without it.

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Treat any and all drugs with respect, for most of the time they are stronger than you are.

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This is a brutal book – sensual, rude, coarse, and cruel. However, it is timely and well-written, even witty.

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Have you noticed that the people who actually make the laws, the people in power, never make laws for themselves?

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Never before have self-suffiency and education been so important, and they are virtually inseparable from survival.

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Power is not a material possession that can be given, it is the ability to act. Power must be taken, it is never given.

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Believe it or not, bananas do contain a small quantity of Musa Sapientum bananadine, which is a mild, short-lasting psychedelic.

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This chapter is going to kill and maim more people than all the rest put together, because people just refuse to take things seriously.

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If a man is to be a man, a free spirit unto himself, he must arm himself not only with weapons but with ideals and concepts he is willing to die for.

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Since shotguns are not military weapons, your local sporting goods dealer will have good information about them, as long as you aren't black, Spanish, or a white freak.

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One of the greatest myths of all time is that so-called civilized man is no longer an animal, and for that reason can strive to disarm himself and grow fat with false concepts.

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There is only one purpose in hand-to-hand combat, and that is to kill. Never face an enemy with the idea of knocking him out. The chances are extremely good that he will kill you.

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Prison does strange things to men. Although its purpose is to break the free spirit of a man, in many cases it just adds fuel to the fire that has never been and will never be extinguished.

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It seems acceptable today to scream for revolution, without any concept of what will follow it. This is just what the forces at large want, for who will follow a man who doesn't know where he's going?

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