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It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.

Abbie Hoffman

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Believe Compulsory Military Peace War
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.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Crazy Humor Maintain People Sense Winning
I just want to do what has to be done so much. I’ll never understand why everyone else doesn’t feel this way.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Done Everyone Much Want Way
Fantasy is the only truth.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Dig Fantasy Manslaughter Mirror Sale State
It’s going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People’s Park, all rolled into one.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Combination Festival Park People Rolled Scope Trial
Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Commitment Dope Drinking Hanging Smoking
I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Authority Decision Face Fighting Thinking Versus
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
Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Contemporary Expedience Justice Law Rule
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.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

College Education Race Truth Two Usually
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.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Feeling Fighting General Power Thinking Win Winning
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.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Educate Idea Inform List Media Ridiculous
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
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!
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Dope Kid Minor Real Sale State Year
The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Accepting Challenge Community Essence Individual Nation Revolution Successful
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!
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Compliment Crime Fun Government Great High Honor Indicted Thrill

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