A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.
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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Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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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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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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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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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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It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
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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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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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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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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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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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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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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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