Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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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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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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The ’60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.
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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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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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Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?
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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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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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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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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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Fantasy is the only truth.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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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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