Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
ABBIE HOFFMANIf you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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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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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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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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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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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.
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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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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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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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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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I just want to do what has to be done so much. I’ll never understand why everyone else doesn’t feel this way.
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Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they’ll tell you it’s to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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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 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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