Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
ABBIE HOFFMANThe only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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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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..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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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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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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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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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win.
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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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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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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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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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