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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More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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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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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they’ll tell you it’s to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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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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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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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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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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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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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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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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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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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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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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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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