Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
ABBIE HOFFMANIt’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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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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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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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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It’s going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People’s Park, all rolled into one.
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Fantasy is the only truth.
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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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It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
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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 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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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
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Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it’s something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.
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Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
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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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Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
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