It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
ABBIE HOFFMANEvery rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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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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Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.
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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it’s something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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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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Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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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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