I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
ABBIE HOFFMANSmoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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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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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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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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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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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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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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It’s going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People’s Park, all rolled into one.
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A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.
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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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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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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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Fantasy is the only truth.
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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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