Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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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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A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.
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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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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 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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I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win.
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Fantasy is the only truth.
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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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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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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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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 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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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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