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.
ABBIE HOFFMANWhat if when they called a war, no one went?
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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In this state, dig it, you get twenty years for sale of dope to a minor. You only get five to ten for manslaughter. So like, the thing is, if you’re selling to a kid and cops come, shoot the kid real quick!
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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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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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Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
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Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
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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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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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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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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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