Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
ABBIE HOFFMANThe key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
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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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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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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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that’s about tenth or eleventh on their list.
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My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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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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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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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
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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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