The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.
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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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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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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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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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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When I appear in the Chicago courtroom, I want to be tried not because I support the NLF – which I do – but because I have long hair.
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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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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
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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.
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I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win.
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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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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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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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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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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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A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power. We are not interested in the greening of Amerika except for the grass that will cover its grave.
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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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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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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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