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!
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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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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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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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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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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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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I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.
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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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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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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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