It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
ABBIE HOFFMANWouldn’t you want to be indicted by the govenment for a high crime? It’s a great thrill. It’s an honor. It’s a compliment. It’s fun. I’m enjoying every minute of it!
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.
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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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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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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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..you just get stoned, get the ideas in your head and then do ’em. And don’t bullshit. I mean that’s the thing about doin’ that guerrilla theatre. You be prepared to die to prove your point.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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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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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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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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It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
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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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Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it’s something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.
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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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