If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
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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In this state, dig it, you get twenty years for sale of dope to a minor. You only get five to ten for manslaughter. So like, the thing is, if you’re selling to a kid and cops come, shoot the kid real quick!
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
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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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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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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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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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Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
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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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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.
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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I’ve learned that lesson twice now.
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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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