The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
ABBIE HOFFMANYou measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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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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It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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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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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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Fantasy is the only truth.
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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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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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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 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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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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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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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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