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.
ABBIE HOFFMANThe best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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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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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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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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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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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
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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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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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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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Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?
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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I’ve learned that lesson twice now.
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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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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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The ’60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.
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