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 HOFFMANPeace 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.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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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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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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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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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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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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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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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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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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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 key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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