Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
ABBIE HOFFMANWhat if when they called a war, no one went?
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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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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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.
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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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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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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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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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The ’60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.
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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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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 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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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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