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.
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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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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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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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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The work that the kids saw around them was so odious, so boring, so worthless that they came to regard WORK as the only dirty four-letter word in the English language.
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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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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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It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
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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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Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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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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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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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 revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power. We are not interested in the greening of Amerika except for the grass that will cover its grave.
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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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