Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
ABBIE HOFFMANThere is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I’ve learned that lesson twice now.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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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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If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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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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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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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I’ve learned that lesson twice now.
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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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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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