Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?
ABBIE HOFFMANMaintain 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.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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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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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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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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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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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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Fantasy is the only truth.
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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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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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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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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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Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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