There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
ABBIE HOFFMANThere is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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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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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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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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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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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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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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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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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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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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When I appear in the Chicago courtroom, I want to be tried not because I support the NLF – which I do – but because I have long hair.
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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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