A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.
ABBIE HOFFMANLife-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
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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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Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
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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 think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.
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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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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.
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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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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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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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Wouldn’t you want to be indicted by the govenment for a high crime? It’s a great thrill. It’s an honor. It’s a compliment. It’s fun. I’m enjoying every minute of it!
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The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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