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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

Abbie Hoffman

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.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Crazy Humor Maintain People Sense Winning
If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Awfully Drug Good Music Rock Sex
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Breakfast Duty Eat Hippie Liberty Political Second
I just want to do what has to be done so much. I’ll never understand why everyone else doesn’t feel this way.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Done Everyone Much Want Way
The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Best Educate Oneself Revolution Way
There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Challenging Giving Greater Success Winning
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 HOFFMAN

Educate Idea Inform List Media Ridiculous
I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Cute Probably Rebellious Revolutionary
Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Molotov Cocktail Random Violence Rocks
It’s going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People’s Park, all rolled into one.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Combination Festival Park People Rolled Scope Trial
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.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Authority Decision Face Fighting Thinking Versus
Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Dope Drug Funny Needle Political Shooting
The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Breakfast Revolution Second
Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Detail Image Important Right
Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Commitment Dope Drinking Hanging Smoking
Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Actor Available Less Life Need Rehearse Script

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