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 HOFFMANBecome 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.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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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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Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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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.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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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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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
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Democracy 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.
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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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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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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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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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