Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it’s something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.
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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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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..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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Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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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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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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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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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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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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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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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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Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.
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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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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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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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Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?
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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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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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Fantasy is the only truth.
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