The ’60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.
ABBIE HOFFMANThere 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.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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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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If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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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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It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
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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.
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The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.
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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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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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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
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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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Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
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