The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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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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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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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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 only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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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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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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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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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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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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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
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