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If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.

Abbie Hoffman

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.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Appear Hair Long Support Tried
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
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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Feeling Fighting General Power Thinking Win Winning
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Abuse Clinical Legal Medical Political Understand
Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Crowded Fire Freedom Mean Right Speech Technology
The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Inspirational Life Revolution Support Truth Way
What if when they called a war, no one went?
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Call Question War
The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Best Educate Oneself Revolution Way
I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Believe Compulsory Military Peace War
It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Best Embarrassing Government List Political Seller Wind
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.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Consciousness Cover Distribution Empty Grass Grave Greening Power Revolution
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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College Education Race Truth Two Usually
The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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College Destroy Reason Should
Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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Contemporary Expedience Justice Law Rule
I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Cute Probably Rebellious Revolutionary
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

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