Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
ABBIE HOFFMANThe best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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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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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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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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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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Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
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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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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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I learned one thing; you never do anything for fame or money. You only do things ’cause they’re fun or good. If you can combine the two at the same time, you can make a contribution to the world and have a lot of happiness.
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