There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
ABBIE HOFFMANThere is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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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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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.
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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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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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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
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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.
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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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Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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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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The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that’s about tenth or eleventh on their list.
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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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In this state, dig it, you get twenty years for sale of dope to a minor. You only get five to ten for manslaughter. So like, the thing is, if you’re selling to a kid and cops come, shoot the kid real quick!
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