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.
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 reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.
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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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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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Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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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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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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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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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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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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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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