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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

Abbie Hoffman

Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Impose Language People Reach Wish
Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Advice Cow Hamburger Sacred Tastiest
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.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Around Dirty Four Kid Saw Work
Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Contemporary Expedience Justice Law Rule
Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Actor Available Less Life Need Rehearse Script
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 HOFFMAN

Consciousness Cover Distribution Empty Grass Grave Greening Power Revolution
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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Change Hippie Ideology Liberty Process Revolution Something
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.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Educate Idea Inform List Media Ridiculous
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.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Crazy Humor Maintain People Sense Winning
What if when they called a war, no one went?
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Call Question War
Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Action Morality Reality Well
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Conformist Democracy Dissident Freedom Giving Political
It’s going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People’s Park, all rolled into one.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Combination Festival Park People Rolled Scope Trial
Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Dope Drug Funny Needle Political Shooting
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Abuse Clinical Legal Medical Political Understand
My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Authority Democracy Disrespect Kid

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