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.
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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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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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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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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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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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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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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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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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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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 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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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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I 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.
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