There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
ABBIE HOFFMANSacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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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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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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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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Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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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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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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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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It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
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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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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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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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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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