Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
ABBIE HOFFMANSacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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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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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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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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When I appear in the Chicago courtroom, I want to be tried not because I support the NLF – which I do – but because I have long hair.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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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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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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If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
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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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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
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Fantasy is the only truth.
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..you just get stoned, get the ideas in your head and then do ’em. And don’t bullshit. I mean that’s the thing about doin’ that guerrilla theatre. You be prepared to die to prove your point.
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