Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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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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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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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 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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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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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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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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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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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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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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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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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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