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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!

Abbie Hoffman

Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Impose Language People Reach Wish
When I appear in the Chicago courtroom, I want to be tried not because I support the NLF – which I do – but because I have long hair.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Appear Hair Long Support Tried
..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.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Guerrilla Head Ideas Bullshit Mean Stoned
The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Inspirational Life Revolution Support Truth Way
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Abuse Clinical Legal Medical Political Understand
I learned one thing; you never do anything for fame or money. You only do things ’cause they’re fun or good. If you can combine the two at the same time, you can make a contribution to the world and have a lot of happiness.
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Combine Fun Learned Thing Two World
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.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Complicated Concept Gobbles Lamb Lips Peace Wipe
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 HOFFMAN

Corporate Internationalist Life Machine Respect Robot War
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.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Believe Democracy Freedom Hang Motivational Participate
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Depression Form Individual Nostalgia Society
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Breakfast Duty Eat Hippie Liberty Political Second
Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Action Morality Reality Well
Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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Political Produce Random Rock
The ’60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Dope Great never Rock Roll Sex
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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College Education Race Truth Two Usually
Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Content Important Information Structure Transmission

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