Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
ABBIE HOFFMANAction is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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Fantasy is the only truth.
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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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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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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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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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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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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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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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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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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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