Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
ABBIE HOFFMANSacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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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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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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To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.
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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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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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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 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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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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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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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!
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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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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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