I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
ABBIE HOFFMANThe only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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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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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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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there’s peace. Well, I ain’t for that peace at all.
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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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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
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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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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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