Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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It's going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People's Park, all rolled into one.
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The work that the kids saw around them was so odious, so boring, so worthless that they came to regard WORK as the only dirty four-letter word in the English language.
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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
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It's too late. We can't win, they've gotten too powerful.
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Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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Maintain a sense of humor. People who take themselves too seriously are power-crazy. If they win it will be haircuts for all. Beware of power freaks.
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Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal hospital care for everyone. I believe that we should not have a single homeless person in the richest country in the world. And I believe that we should not have a C.I.A. that goes around overwhelming governments and assassinating political leaders, working for tight oligarchies around the world to protect the tight oligarchy here at home.
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going.
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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they'll tell you it's to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.
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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as "cute."
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..you just get stoned, get the ideas in your head and then do 'em. And don't bullshit. I mean that's the thing about doin' that guerrilla theatre. You be prepared to die to prove your point.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.
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The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
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It's embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
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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.
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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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Wouldn't you want to be indicted by the govenment for a high crime? It's a great thrill. It's an honor. It's a compliment. It's fun. I'm enjoying every minute of it!
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