Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
ABBIE HOFFMANThe only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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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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The ’60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.
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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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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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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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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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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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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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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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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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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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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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