Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
ABBIE HOFFMANIt’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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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 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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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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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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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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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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My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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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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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I’ve learned that lesson twice now.
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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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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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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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