When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
ABBIE HOFFMANToday is the first day of the rest of your life.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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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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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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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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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
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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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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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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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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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..you just get stoned, get the ideas in your head and then do ’em. And don’t bullshit. I mean that’s the thing about doin’ that guerrilla theatre. You be prepared to die to prove your point.
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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 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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If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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