Become 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.
ABBIE HOFFMAN..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.
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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Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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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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In this state, dig it, you get twenty years for sale of dope to a minor. You only get five to ten for manslaughter. So like, the thing is, if you’re selling to a kid and cops come, shoot the kid real quick!
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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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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The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
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Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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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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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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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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