The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
ABBIE HOFFMANThe first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda 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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It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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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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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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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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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.
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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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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.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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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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