Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
ABBIE HOFFMANNever impose your language on people you wish to reach.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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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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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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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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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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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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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 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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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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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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..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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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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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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