Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.
ABBIE HOFFMANUsually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they’ll tell you it’s to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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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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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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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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The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
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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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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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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 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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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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A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power. We are not interested in the greening of Amerika except for the grass that will cover its grave.
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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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