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.
ABBIE HOFFMANDemocracy 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.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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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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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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Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.
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Maintain a sense of humor. People who take themselves too seriously are power-crazy. If they win it will be haircuts for all. Beware of power freaks.
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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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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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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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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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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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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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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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