A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power. We are not interested in the greening of Amerika except for the grass that will cover its grave.
ABBIE HOFFMANIf you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.
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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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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 only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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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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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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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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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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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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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.
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Fantasy is the only truth.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
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