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.
ABBIE HOFFMANIt’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
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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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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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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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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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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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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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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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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Fantasy is the only truth.
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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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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Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
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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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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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