Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
ABBIE HOFFMAN
ABBIE HOFFMAN
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The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that’s about tenth or eleventh on their list.
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman 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.
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman 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!
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman 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.
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman What if when they called a war, no one went?
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman 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.
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman 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.
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
Aldous HuxleyAldous Huxley Not so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet.
John BurroughsJohn Burroughs The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
Noam ChomskyNoam Chomsky Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. No … eight days a week.
Alan BradleyAlan Bradley A branding program should be designed to differentiate your cow from all the other cattle on the range.
Al RiesAl Ries My family and I reside on a non-working farm, although we have a couple of horses and the usual stuff like pigs, cows, and chickens.
Al JardineAl Jardine None of my friends don’t have Facebook accounts.
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