The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
ABBIE HOFFMANWhen decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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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..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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If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
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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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I learned one thing; you never do anything for fame or money. You only do things ’cause they’re fun or good. If you can combine the two at the same time, you can make a contribution to the world and have a lot of happiness.
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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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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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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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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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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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It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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