Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.
ABBIE HOFFMANTo 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.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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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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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
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Usually 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.
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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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Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
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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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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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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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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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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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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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