Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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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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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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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.
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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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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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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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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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There 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.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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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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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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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.
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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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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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Fantasy is the only truth.
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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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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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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 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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I just want to do what has to be done so much. I’ll never understand why everyone else doesn’t feel this way.
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