Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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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If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
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It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
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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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Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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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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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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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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Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
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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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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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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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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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Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.
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