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.
ABBIE HOFFMANI just want to do what has to be done so much. I’ll never understand why everyone else doesn’t feel this way.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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Wouldn’t you want to be indicted by the govenment for a high crime? It’s a great thrill. It’s an honor. It’s a compliment. It’s fun. I’m enjoying every minute of it!
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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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Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.
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..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.
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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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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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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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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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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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The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
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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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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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