It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
ABBIE HOFFMANI 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.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
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I just want to do what has to be done so much. I’ll never understand why everyone else doesn’t feel this way.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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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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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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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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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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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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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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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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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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